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...first drive sailed into a water hazard. The sportsman then proceeded to tee up a new ball, whack it onto the green, and three-putt the par-three hole. Next he shot a seven in a par-four situation and a six on another par-four hole, winding up with a very inefficient seven-over-par. Too bad for General Francisco Franco, 73, who commands quite a few things in Spain, but not the golf courses. As he left the new links at Sotogrande near Gibraltar, Franco asserted himself. The two-hole course on his estate outside Madrid obviously wasn...
Died. Amory L. Haskell, 72, industrialist and sportsman, who in the late 1920s introduced auto safety glass from Great Britain to the U.S. market, then at the age of 38 retired to devote himself to horse breeding and racing, most notably as founder (in 1946) and president of New Jersey's 600-acre Monmouth Park race track; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...been one long vacation because I have been paid for doing the thing I like best." He is worried about the effect of money on today's athletes. "It's not sport any more," he complains, "when a baseball player gets $100,000 a year. The sportsman is the guy who goes out there for a brass medal and honor, not just for the money." Same for the real sportswriter...
Died. Walter Hansgen, 46, veteran U.S. driver (45 major races won) who made his reputation in Jaguars for Sportsman Briggs Cunningham before switching, in 1963, mostly to Ford, whose rakish Mark II he drove to second place in last month's twelve-hour Sebring endurance race; of massive brain damage five days after his Mark II aquaplaned across the wet track at 120 m.p.h., flipped end over end and crashed into a sand bank during a practice run for the 24 hours of Le Mans this June; in Orléans, France...
Even a multimillionaire needs a little luck. Ohio Sportsman John W. Galbreath has had his share: his Pittsburgh Pirates won a World Series in 1960 when Bill Mazeroski hit a home run in the last inning of the last game, and his Chateaugay won the 1963 Kentucky Derby at long-shot odds of 9-1. Galbreath's luck seemed to sour after he paid $1,350,000 to lease the undefeated Italian stallion Ribot for stud duty, improving the stock at his farm in Lexington, Ky. When his original lease ran out last year, about all Galbreath...