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Three times in one practice session last week, deadeye Andy Prillip, one of Illinois' famed Whiz Kids, dribbled down the floor and then passed up an easy shot at the basket. Instead he tossed the ball to Whiz Kid Jack Smiley. Phillip explained, with a grin, "Smiley's wife and little boy are up in the balcony...
...interrupted their basketball in 1943, the Whiz Kids of the University of Illinois had stopped being kids. The four who returned to school wore battle stars and three were married. Phillip, who had broken five conference records in 1943, had been a Marine lieutenant at Iwo Jima. Smiley fought in the Battle of the Bulge; 6 ft. 3 in. Guard Gene Vance had been a lieutenant in the ETO; Forward Ken Menke had been an artilleryman. The four were almost as spry as ever, and had to be, with the likes of Substitute Dwight Eddleman around (he scored a breathtaking...
...regarded by golf's wise man, Walter Hagen, as "potentially the best hitter of the ball I've ever seen, pros not excepted." The finalists were tall Ted Bishop, a reformed pro* from Dedham, Mass., and a sawed-off Californian with a comic-strip name, Smiley Quick...
...finals the crowd turned out 5,000 strong. Barrel-chested Smiley Quick, public links champ, caught the crowd's fancy. He wiggled his wide hips before lacing into every shot, but his woods and irons fell far short of easy-swinging Ted Bishop's. On the greens, 5 ft. 5 in. Quick did his brightest stuff. When he sinks a short putt, he usually dives for the ball just as it drops in. On hole No. 4, he chipped the ball from 60 feet, ran after it all the way to the cup; it sank for a birdie...
...after getting three up on his lanky rival, energetic Smiley Quick ran our of gas. They were even-Stephen after 36 holes. On the 37th Quick's trusty putter betrayed him, and he blew an easy two-footer and the match...