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...ever loses interest in golf, the game may never be the same again. The rich pros will get poorer, start missing their putts, and have to go back to teaching other people. But so far, the trend is the other way, with TV cameras peering over the shoulder or sighting the roll of a green with nearly every pro who ever endorsed a set of woods. This week ABC begins a new series called Challenge Golf. The resident stars are Gary Player and Arnold Palmer, who as a best-ball team will take on various comers in a complicated...
...this year. Matched in the Rose Bowl were the nation's two top teams, Southern California and Wisconsin, and in 3½ hours of matchless play, they restored to college football all the grace and aggressiveness, the fun and glory that it had presumably lost to the pros...
...Pros & Cons...
...football's pros are shrewder by scheduling only 14 games, how is it that Paul Hornung tops the Green Bay Packers' player payroll with a mere $25,000, while baseball's 162-game season enables the San Francisco Giants to pay Willie Mays $90,000 a year. If the cost of a National Football League franchise is $550,000 today, the growth of the pro grid is decades behind major league baseball, which recorded a $2,800,000 sale of the New York Yankees...
...state was West Virginia-but West Virginia breeds basketball stars as lavishly as Texas turns out football players, is the home of such slick-shooting pros as Jerry West and Hot Rod Hundley. The way the Mountaineers at West Virginia University look at it Thorn may turn out to be the best...