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...Lake Course at San Francisco's Olympic Club, the Oklahoma oil broker rested on a shooting stick between each stroke, burying his face in his hands and moodily wondering how to get his drives out of the rough and his putts into the hole. Still, the 1949 Amateur champ and veteran Walker Cupper somehow got through each round, finally defeated Ohio Blanket Salesman Roger McManus 3 and 2 on the 34th hole to make it to the finals...
After beating Defending Champion JoAnne Gunderson in the semifinals. Anne teed off in the finals against Barbara Romack Porter of Sacramento, the 1954 champ. Anne was tired ("I couldn't sleep last night") but philosophical ("I'd give anything to win the tournament, but I don't intend to spend my life trying to win it"). At the start, her swing looked flat, and Mrs. Porter had a three-up lead at the 18-hole lunch break, still led two-up after 26 holes. But she three-putted the 27th and Anne got her short game going...
...Harris, 25, of Cut and Shoot. Texas, but they forgot to give him a mighty punch. Half with a right and half with a shove, Harris put Champion Floyd Patterson, 23, on the canvas for a four-count in the second, the only round he won. But the expressionless champ did not even blink, came back to floor Harris four times, open up a mass of cuts that required 14 stitches to close. After twelve rounds the challenger was a bloody hulk, could go no farther. Referee Mushy Callahan took one look at the helpless Harris and stopped the slaughter...
...specialist in hurling the discus a country mile (168 ft. 8½ in. in 1952 Olympics), burly Schoolteacher Nina Ponomareva, 29, was herself hurled-right off the U.S.S.R. track and field team. Bounced with her, for "egotistical and uncomradely conduct," was another chunky champ, Shot Putter Galina Zybina. For Nina, disgrace was nothing new: visiting London for a track meet in 1956, she raised hackles and eyebrows by walking out of a shop with five filched hats under her arm. later coughed up $8.82 in court costs to get free of stern British...
Using the Gore-inspired technique. Joe Brown whipped Champion Wallace ("Bud") Smith in a nontitle bout. He fought Smith again for the championship in August 1956. Joe broke his right hand in the second round, fought the champ one-handed. In the 14th, chancing his right just once, he floored Smith, went on to win the decision...