Word: rods
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This Saturday he hits the richest pay dirt in tennis history ? the battle with Newcombe at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. Encouraged by the success of last February's nationally televised winner-take-all match between Connors and Rod Laver (which Jimmy won by a score of 6-4, 6-2, 3-6, 7-5), CBS is paying $600,000 for the rights to broadcast live this second "Heavyweight Championship of Tennis." Caesars Palace is adding a purse of $250,000 plus $50,000 for expenses. The sale of foreign broadcast rights should yield another $100,000. The approximate...
When Yale and Harvard last met on the baseball diamond, April 20 of last year for a doubleheader in New Haven, it was like an episode of the Twilight Zone. The Eli's Don Gallagher played Rod Serling, walking the leadoff Crimson batter in each of the seven innings of the first game (ending with a grand total of twelve walks) and pitching a no-hitter, Yale won the game...
...found the reason for Gill's tardiness in the church members' failure to achieve "sinless perfection"; the members bow their heads meekly during tirades on this theme at weekly worship. The congregation's faith is summed up by one of the interim preachers, Viet Nam Veteran Rod Greene, 28, who says the idea that Gill "will not return is not a possibility to me. If it takes five or ten years, I will still be here...
...MINNESOTA--The Twins came on strong at the end of last season, but even a fourth batting crown for Rod Carew couldn't save them...
...half-mile in the low 1:50s. When Ryun broke the world record, he made the first half in 1:58.9. With his rocketing initial spurt, Bayi has changed the entire strategy of the mile. "We have to get up and go from the start now," says New Zealander Rod Dixon, who placed third in the 1,500 meters in Munich. Says Bayi modestly: "It's just my style. I'm not trying to psych anyone." Except himself. Last year, when he tried running with the pack, he was so rattled by the traffic that he fell...