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...Course Architect Robert Trent Jones fondly calls it "the greatest test of championship golf in the world." But to the 150 golfers who teed off in gusty winds last week to start the 61st U.S. Open, one of golf's most coveted prizes, Jones's 6,907-yd. Oakland Hills course in Birmingham, Mich., was simply "the Monster...
...largely to a brawny, 6-ft. 4-in., 225-lb. millionaire named Robert A. Uihlein (rhymes with beeline) Jr. A onetime Harvard football tackle, he is now playing captain of the Milwaukee team and owner of the suburban farm land that was converted into a standard, 300-by 160-yd. polo field. Uihlein also happens to be president of the Jos. Schlitz Brewing Co., but he is better known for his polo playing than for his efforts in behalf of the beer that made Milwaukee famous. Between periods at a game in New York a few seasons ago, an adman...
...Yd. Dash. So far this season, four men-San Jose State's Dennis Johnson, Villanova's Frank Budd, Oregon's Harry Jerome, Florida A. & M.'s Bob Hayes-have equaled Mel Patton's 13-year-old. 9.3-sec. record. Somewhere between Manhattan and Moscow, one of the quartet may well set a new mark. Best prospect: Johnson, a sinewy Jamaican sprinter who has already been clocked in 9.2 sec. while running ahead of a helpful tail wind...
Ever since 1948, skivvy-clad sprinters have strained to get a stride in front of Mel Patton's sizzling 9.3 sec. world record for the 100-yd. dash. Although ten men have matched his time,* no one yet has raced past Patton into the record book. But this year the old champ has a new, more dangerous challenger: San Jose State's cocky Dennis Johnson, a whippet-fast Jamaican who is undefeated in eleven straight races, and this month became the first runner in history to tie Patton's world record four times in a single season...
...chill. There were high school students and grandfathers; there was an obstetrician from Newton, Mass., and a psychiatrist from Manhattan. But most of the 166 runners who started last week's annual Boston Marathon could be counted on to drop out soon after the 26-mile, 385-yd. grind began, and Boston wags suggested that the Exeter Street finish line should be rechristened the Finnish line. Finnish runners had won the B.A.A. Marathon four times in the past seven years, and 1959 Winner Eino Oksanen. a hawk-nosed Helsinki detective, was back as a heavy favorite. Slim U.S. hopes...