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...money, and the hours, would be hard to beat, but McEnroe had other good reasons to be pleased. On the previous weekend, his temper well under control, he had led the U.S. team to victory over the British in the Davis Cup matches in Rancho Mirage, Calif, winning two singles without losing a set and overwhelming Buster Mottram in the key contest. No one in the 68 years of competition for the Cup had ever taken two singles matches so decisively in the finals. The win was the first in six years for the American team, which has been shunned...
DIED. Richard D. Chapman, 67, the Ben Hogan of amateur golf; of a stroke; in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif. The affluent Chapman studied his hobby as if it were his profession, qualified to play in 19 Masters tournaments and, among other victories over his three-decade career, captured the U.S. and British national championships...
...weeks ago Gerald Ford suddenly broke off a speaking tour in Rochester, N.Y., to take care of his wife Betty at their new $600,000 home in Rancho Mirage, a city eleven miles from Palm Springs, Calif. She was tense and anxious, and needed his help. Soon afterward, Betty decided that she had "overmedicated" herself with a combination of painkilling drugs for arthritis and a pinched nerve in her neck...
Mike Hulme Rancho Mirage, Calif...
Even before sponsoring his illustrious Pro-Am, Crosby had hosted a tournament known as the Rancho Santa Fe Open as early as 1936. In 1937, his first year on the pro circuit, Sam Snead won the Rancho Santa Fe for his second tour victory. When someone showed "Slamming Sammy" a photograph of himself in the New York Times, he blurted, "How'd they ever get my picture? I ain't never been to New York...