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Past the first tee of the Memphis Country Club the convoy moved at a snail's pace. Along the walk bordering the course strolled a group of girls in shorts. From the trucks came a drumfire of soldiers' shouts-"Yoo-Hoo-o-o"-"Hi, baby"-a fanfare of whistling...
...southpaws with strange bats in their hands, 2,000 folks turned out at Boston's Commonwealth Country Club. They saw no heckling match: it was much too serious for that. The Babe, now 47 and 30 Ib. heavier than in his heyday, put his 230 Ib. behind each tee shot, outdrove Cobb on nearly every hole. Cobb, 54, played a characteristically crafty short game. His brilliant putting stole hole after hole. On the 16th green, he won the match, 3 and 2. Finishing the 18 holes to please the gallery, Cobb's medal score was 81, Ruth...
...stood on the first tee of New York's Apawamis Club. Nathaniel Vickers cleared his throat, bowed his shaggy white head and socked a golf ball -klonk. Far and true down the fairway flew the ball. "You're not going to play 18 holes, are you?" a bystander asked. "I came here," snapped Oldster Vickers, snipping each word as though he had scissors in his teeth, "with that...
Except for his moonface, Young Bobby is as unlike his father as tee and green. At 14, the Old Man was short and chubby. Young Bobby is nearly six feet tall, weighs 195 Ib. At 14, the Old Man was already a perfectionist, with eight years of painstaking practice behind him. When he made a sour shot, he would turn purple, talk purple, fling his club toward the next county. Young Bobby is happy-go-lucky, prone to grin rather than groan when he misses a three-foot putt. At 14, the Old Man could break 70.* Young Bobby...
...High School golf tournament. "I don't expect him to break 90 for his first 18 holes," said Father Jones, on hand to watch his son play. Not the least embarrassed, Emperor Jones explained his son's game: "He hits the ball a mile from the tee, a mile on the fairway, a mile on the green in almost any direction...