Word: yd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...professional tournaments he has entered, and he has finished among the top ten in 24. Last week, in the Las Vegas Tournament of Champions. Jack Nicklaus-doggone him anyway-got richer still. Ah, but the way he did it. On opening day at the 7,073-yd. Desert Inn Country Club course, his second tee shot strayed from the fairway and conked a spectator on the head. That rattled the spectator. Not Jack. He paused briefly to comfort the injured bystander, drilled an iron to the green and neatly two-putted for a birdie four. He then birdied five...
Mottley--clearly the star of the meet--made up an amazing 35 yards in the final lap of the relay as he came from last place to edge out Harvard's anchor man, Bill McAfee. The junior from Trinidad also led the meet record for the 440-yd. run with a time of 47.0 seconds...
Aggrey Awori was one of two double winners and the individual high scorer in the meet, accounting for 15 points before fatigue forced him out of the competition. Awori took the 100-yd. dash in :10.2 and the 220-yd, run in :21.9, as well as third place in the broad jump...
...mile relay, four University of Arizona undergraduates got a gift: an autographed baton, the same one that had been carried by the U.S. Olympic relay team in 1960 when it clocked a record 3 min. 5.6 sec. Paced by Sophomore Henry Carr, who flashed through his 440-yd. leg in 45.1 sec., the Arizonans promptly ran the mile...
...only other Crimson points in today's events came with a victory by Aggrey Awori in the 330 yd. intermediate hurdles, a third-place finish by John Parker in the 220 yd. dash, and Parker's fifth place in the 100 yd. dash. Awori did not compete in either sprint or in the high hurdles...