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Because sports skeptics have questioned the will to win of the play-for-pay boys, Promoter Kramer decided to set up a jackpot-prize tournament at each of the 88 U.S. cities the pros will visit in their 25,000-mile cross-country junket. Where the take is fat enough, as it has been in New York and Philadelphia, the players will be shooting for $4,000 to the winner, will have to settle for $2,500, $1,500 or $1,000 in defeat. In other cities, they will play for comparable percentages of the gate...
...High School at 16. It is Cousy's quiet boast that "I've never missed a game since." The brag covers four years of varsity play at Holy Cross, where he won his All-America rating, and three years of play in the faster company of the pros. In all, it amounts to close to 500 consecutive games. Durable Cousy, now 25, figures that a careful training regimen, e.g., no smoking, no drinking, will let him play for another five years...
...election could be held if she resigned. McNamara was secretary of the union at the time, and quietly dictated to the president the policy that beat off an attempt to incorporate the H.U.E.R.A. into the A.F.L. Although new himself to organized labor, he had the advice of two old pros. Slocum has been in union work since 1919, and Robert Green, another leader in the anti-Mulvihill faction, has had almost as much experience. Under this tutelage, McNamara quickly picked up the tricks of the trade...
...Phipps's three-year-old colt Level Lea won the $81,350 Jockey Club Gold Cup by six lengths in a slow 3:27 for the two miles. ¶[ In Paris, the U.S. Ryder Cup golf team, conquerors of the British fortnight ago, beat a team of continental pros, twelve matches to three...
...Virginia Water, England, Britain's Ryder Cup golfers almost got the cup back from a defending team of U.S. pros -a feat which would have meant the first British victory in six tries, 20 years. Two missed short putts made the difference. The U.S. team, captained by Lloyd Mangrum, hung on to the cup again, 6½ points...