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After spending the war in the Army, he returned to Brown to receive his degree and graduate in 1944. That fall he joined the Chicago Bears and a backfield that included Sid Luckman, Ray McLean, and George McAfee. In his freshman season with the pros Margarita distinguished himself by ranking fourth among the ground gainers. In 1945, the year George Halas returned to the club, he finished in third place...
Since Davis Cuppers Kramer and Schroeder plan to join up with the pros before the year is ended, Pancho at 19 is obviously a rising amateur who bears watching. Long out of favor with Southern California's amateur tennis czar Perry Jones because he wouldn't stay in school (TIME, May 19), Bad Boy Pancho is now behaving himself. As a result, he no longer has to play on public courts, enjoys the luxury of the swank private tennis clubs that Jones controls...
Benefactor No. 2 was Dick Skeen, one of the shrewdest teaching pros in the business. For $25 down and $5 a month, he began teaching young Jake how to swing a tennis racket. Each day, the youngster spent three hours on trolley cars, traveling the 18 miles between his home and Skeen's Beverly Hills court. Gradually his strokes took on a Skeen sheen. At 15, Jake easily beat Alice Marble, who was then women's singles champion...
...Books (Sat. 4:45 p.m., CBS). Pros & cons of Bemelmans' Dirty
...jowled 180, and mellowed him a bit. When he arrived in the U.S. last April, galleries were impressed with his jaunty plus fours, his cheery smile, the way he tipped his cap to applause. Even more impressively, he won four of his first six tournaments against the best U.S. pros (TIME, June 9). Former U.S. Open Champion Lawson Little said ruefully: "He hasn't anything on anybody over here except concentration . .-. and he's the finest putter who ever putted in America...