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...Chicago Symphony. Winner and still champion, Solti's virtuosic ensemble has been the finest in the U.S. for more than a decade, and was often close to the top under earlier music directors like Fritz Reiner (1953-62). The orchestra's strengths are its burnished brass and taut, lean, precise string section, which give its performances a crispness and vitality that are the despair of its rivals. "I have never had a better-spirited orchestra than this one," says Solti, 70. "If they have a conductor they respect, they will go through hell for him." The Chicago spirit...
Then, when the eminent Americans forcibly pressed Augusta National for birdies, the rolling course fitfully responded with bogeys. Unwittingly, Texans Ben Crenshaw and Tom Kite overtook them all to finish second, four shots behind Ballesteros. "Play the course," the winner had counseled himself, "and be cool." Asked how his second Masters victory compared with the first, Ballesteros said, "I tell you, they are both very sweet. But the first is always the best, like when you marry the first time." He is a bachelor...
Palmer, 53, winner of four Masters titles, shot a four-under-par 68 in a nostalgic first round, making his incorrigible followers wonder if he could win again. "Damn right," Palmer said, but then he shot 74, 76 and 78. Jack Nicklaus, 43, who has won five Masters, was asked who he thought would win. "When I'm not here any more," Nicklaus answered softly, "I'll pick somebody else." Following a first-round 73, Nicklaus had to withdraw with a creaky back. Ballesteros has a bad back too, but at the mention of it after his closing...
...upsetting the Crimson, Princeton gained the Compton Cup for the first time in over a quarter century, while MIT, the last non-Harvard winner in 1962, finished a distant third...
Game three in the best-of-three series will be played Sunday in Boston. The winner meets Milwaukee in the next round of the playoffs...