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Irony Shot. In Kansas City, Mo., Golfer Martha Dietz stood up to the tee, swung and missed, did it again, connected solidly the third time, had to be satisfied with a hole-in-three...
Unsmiling and unexcited, she walked rapidly from tee to green, hitting the ball with care, but without fuss. Determined to make her the world's best, her father, a former golf-course owner, had started her golfing at four. Usually Marlene considers golf fun, but a few weeks ago she had balked at practicing. Father, putting on an act of what he called "wrathful psychology," broke her niblick over his knee. She cried, repented, and went back to her practicing, thereupon won the Palm Springs Invitational Tournament (with play that included a par 70). Marlene's ambition...
Tyke Wilcox will tee off first today, as he has in the three previous encounters, but Ed Egan, instead of Bob Orr will run second. Bill Rickenbacker remains number three man, while Sam Savidge has moved up from five to four, leaving the former spot vacant for Joe Gordon...
Babe and George met on a Los Angeles golf course, where a promoter, as a gag, had put the wrestler and the lady golfer in a threesome with a minister. After they were married, they kept on golfing together. On the fourth tee at Brentwood one day, the Babe hit a terrific drive down the fairway. Then George, just a plain country golfer, went through some of the contortions of his trade-flying mare, airplane spin, body-twist-and hit the ball about three yards farther than the Babe. Said Babe: "I always said I could fall in love with...
...matches; and an overdeveloped right wrist that once stroked the most devastating forehand in tennis. By 1942, he had chopped his game from the 90s to the 70s and become golf pro at the Southern California Golf & Country Club. When he became a fulltime playing pro last year, his tee shots were usually long & straight, his irons still wobbly. But on the greens, he had a master's putting touch. "The only bad habit I've picked up in golf," says he, "is getting fat." He now weighs 195, about 40 pounds more than his tennis weight...