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...book, The Education of a Tennis Player, he recalls nosebleeds and oddly flying shots in the 12,000-ft. heights of La Paz, Bolivia, where "we killed ourselves to win a $600 watch, blood streaming down our faces and the balls zooming everywhere." In Khartoum he and three other pros played for a share of $1,000 in a match that ended with a "bug curfew" -a descending swarm of angry insects. He tells of matches on makeshift courts that were a yard too wide, of volleying on a blocked-off street in downtown St. Louis to let people know...
...more money-$326,035 in 13 seasons-than any player in the history of the L.P.G.A. That sounds impressive only until her winnings are compared with what the men make. Last season, when Kathy led the L.P.G.A. money winners for the fifth time, no fewer than 75 men pros earned more than her $30,235 total. And while no proette has ever topped $50,000 for a season, Jack Nicklaus for one has picked up that much in a single tournament. Even so, Kathy is opposed to joining forces with the men's tour. "We had a mixed-foursome...
...elaborate hoax. It was not Press Secretary Ziegler who phoned Holton but a mysterious practical joker who sounded like Ziegler and was ingenious enough to fake the electronic background sounds. Nixon may have been startled to see the unbidden Holton, but the two men handled the situation like pros, spending 30 minutes together. They thus denied the joker the satisfaction of causing any embarrassment or even publicity about the incident...
...pros are like a business," he explained. "There football becomes a way of life. In college, it is completely the opposite-football is entirely voluntary, people are involved because they are motivated...
...Restic is back to a campus, and there are no regrets. "The experience in the pros enable me to see the total spectrum much better now," he says. "In this way, I can help people to act on the basis of broad experience...