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...Florida on a golf scholarship, turned pro after graduation. In 1963, his first full season on the tour, Beard earned $17,938, and he has progressed steadily upward ever since. His official winnings so far this season are $50,993; his unflappable, mechanical game reminds some of his fellow pros of Ben Hogan. Doug Ford, for one, insists that "Frank is the most consistent player, the best swinger on the tour." Beard himself is not too sure. "I'm never going to beat Nicklaus when he's right," he says. "Jack is just too long...
...tennis pros tried it out indoors recently in Montreal, liked it so much that they are rolling it up and taking it with them for all their matches. Says Pro Tour Director Wally Dill: "Most of our players prefer it even to a grass court-the bounce is true, and it slows the game just enough so that the player's skill can show." In the coming weeks, Center Court will be installed at some 30 clubs, including Forest Hills' West Side Tennis Club and the Newport Casino. Predicts Newport Casino President Jimmy Van Alen: "These new courts...
...enduring fascinations of the postseason playoffs is the way the pros- except for football- enjoy making monkeys of the experts when big money is at stake. Take hockey. At the end of the 70-game season, the league leaders are rewarded with $2,250 per man. Then the first four teams meet in the Stanley Cup playoffs for $5,250 per man-and all bets are off. Last week, the Toronto Maple Leafs walloped the Montreal Canadiens for their fourth Stanley Cup in six years. Only once in that time have they finished No. 1 in regular season play...
...Down Their Throats." They should have remembered that long green is the color for Leafs. In the semifinals against the Black Hawks, the old pros put together a fierce, brutally checking defense that smothered the scoring rushes of Chicago's super stars Stan Mikita and Bobby Hull. Filling in for Johnny Bower with the series tied at two games apiece, Terry Sawchuk loomed like a bull walrus in the nets. At one point, Chicago's Hull rifled a 15-ft. slap shot with such force that Sawchuk toppled to the ice. Out rushed the Toronto trainer...
...enter Ray with blood in his eye, just begging for his comeuppance, which takes place when Fonda finally gets the gumption to gun him down. Fortunately for the film, even the small roles are in the hands of some of the oldest pros in the business-among them Edgar Buchanan as a Government man and Lon Chancy as a bartender. Handling the clichés with the care of a cowpoke tending a tired palomino, they make Hard Times seem better than it is because they have been there before- many times. So has the audience...