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...record is now 17 ft. 61 in. - more than a foot and a half above Hamilton's "ultimate" limit. The foot ball has been narrowed and shortened twice since 1930 to make it easier to hold and throw; and each alteration in its shape has contributed to the wide-open passing game of today's pros. In baseball, oversized fielder's gloves with all-but-magnetic pockets have had a noticeably negative effect on batting averages. The lively "rabbit ball" has almost everyone swinging for the fences, and the modern game has a pragmatic maxim: "Singles hitters...
Play was cancelled Saturday and Sunday because of rain and cold. And Monday everyone was forced to play 36 holes even though the weather remained chilly and wet. The fairways were sopped, and Penn State's wide-open par 69 course played very long...
...University of Oklahoma, who in his first top coaching assignment last year, after eight seasons as assistant coach at Missouri and Arkansas, sweated something like 1,500 Ibs. off his downtrodden Sooners, winners of only three of ten games in 1965, fielded a rock-hard team with a wide-open offense (six wins, four losses) and won Big Eight Coach of the Year honors; of a heart attack; in Norman Okla...
...birdied the next hole, a 492-yard par five, by dropping a short putt after a fine wedge shot. He made a routine par on the wide-open 18th and then moved on to the first...
...where party identification is far less important than it once was, Brown is a strange bird. His unflinching loyalty to a Democratic Party he cannot control, and his inability to "understand" the electorate may mean bad days ahead for the old-time political pros. If elections continue to be wide-open, if voters continue to demand new faces and refuse to face the realities of this unlovely urban world, what happened to Brown may happen to other established politicians. California is not the weird anomaly the rest of the country considers it. As the Beach Boys, those insightful amateur sociologists...