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...Crimson edged Connecticut Central for second place by one stroke on a 30-foot birdie putt by Art Burke on the 18th hole. The team had previously tied Connecticut Central at the qualifying rounds at Dartmouth...
Scene I: Mexico City, 1968. A gawky youngster of 18 who looks as if he could be Jerry Lewis' younger brother, perfunctorily addresses a putt. On the course beside him is his swimming coach and constant companion, Sherman Chavoor. Since the boy had recently boasted that he would become the first Olympian to win six gold medals, he needs all the relaxing he can get. Not today. A passerby happens to spot him on the green and shouts, "Hey, Jew boy, you aren't going to win any gold medals!" The brutal slur is delivered by one of the youth...
...chairman of a billion-dollar insurance company shouts "Denenberg!" whenever he misses a putt on the golf course because that is the nastiest oath he knows. Other insurance leaders as well as some hospital administrators, doctors, trial lawyers and auto-company executives can barely repress their anger whenever they hear the name. Of all the meddling bureaucrats and thorn-in-the-side consumer advocates who afflict big business, none is so infuriating as Herbert Sidney Denenberg, the insurance commissioner of Pennsylvania...
Mitchell had blown a chance to win in regulation when he missed an 18-inch putt on the 17th hole. He finished the 72 holes in a tie with the more renowned Nicklaus...
Bobby Mitchell sank a dramatic 20 foot birdie putt on the first extra hole Sunday and defeated heavily-favored Jack Nicklaus in playoff for the title in pro golf's Tournament of Champions...