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...comes to the same thing. Everything Americans wish to believe about their national character is housed in sports: vitality, spontaneity, the bursting of bonds. No state religion for the U.S., but sports will do as well. The Puritans condemned games as antispiritual. Their heirs retaliated by fusing holidays with tournaments???football on Thanksgiving, basketball at Christmas?all blasphemies culminating in Super Sunday. Thorstein Veblen contended that sports and religion have the same genesis in a basic "belief in an inscrutable propensity or a preternatural interposition in the sequence of events." We'll take his word for it. In simpler terms...
...little as it did Dutra. They finished the morning round all even, with 71's. In the afternoon, Walsh went out in 35. Dutra had a 33. When the match ended on the 33rd green, with Walsh four down, it made Dutra's record in winning his last three tournaments???Metropolitan Open, North Shore (Chicago) Open, P. G. A.? 31 under par for 304 holes...
...long trousers, later in more grown-up short ones, with a flaming Swiss Guard's cap during the War (when he helped get $150,000 for the Red Cross) and a smile that grew broader and readier as he filled out, steadied down and began to win the biggest tournaments???Robert Tyre Jones Jr. of golf and Atlanta...
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