Word: sported
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spring golf match in the East is usually a wet cold afternoon of trudging around brown fairways and grassless greens. Golf is a summer sport meant to be played under a July sun behind a slow foursome of businessmen...
...Open and ante up prize money for the pros. With a whole series of open tourna ments in prospect, there was talk of such old pros as Lew Hoad, Frank Sedgman and Althea Gibson coming out of retirement. And the thought of making an honest living from their sport -as golfers do - seemed pretty good to the younger amateurs...
...pros and can no longer expect a free ride from tournament promoters. But it will also attract new talent to the game. "There will be a lot more interest in tennis now," said Bilhe Jean King. "It will be a strong motivation to young athletes to take up the sport...
...there is one Olympic sport in which U.S. supremacy is secure, it is swimming. That was clear two weeks ago when the nation's top collegiate swimmers, led by U.C.L.A.'s Zac Zorn and Mike Burton, rewrote the record book at the N.C.A.A. indoor championships in Hanover, N.H.- smashing no fewer than twelve U.S. and N.C.A.A. marks Zorn clocked a phenomenal 45.3 sec in the 100-yd. freestyle, and Burton became the first man ever to crack 16 mm. in the 1,650-yd. freestyle. Yet even those performances may pale this week when the A.A.U. short-course...
...senior, Mark Spitz was not eligible to compete in the N.C.A.A. meet, a fact that certainly saved the older boys a good deal of embarrassment. At 18, Spitz is recognized as the world's No' 1 swimmer, and the closest thing to a one-man team the sport has ever known...