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Bougas, displaying a combination of base-line strength and forecourt agility, shocked Anne Marie Kleis, the Quakers' number one player. Bougas overcame early flaws which left her trailing, 5-6, in the first set, with eight straight game victories...
Laboring in Nicklaus' formidable shadow, Watson has been quietly etching his way into the record books. In each of the past three years, he has been the top money winner in golf, named Player of the Year by the PGA, and awarded the Vardon Trophy for the lowest stroke average on the PGA tour, a feat no other player has accomplished for even two consecutive years. Says 1978 PGA Championship Winner John Mahaffey: "Tom has become the man to beat...
With star freshmen Tiina Bougas winning by a forfeit, the heavy burden for the Crimson fell upon the shoulders of junior Martha Roberts, who lived up to her label as "the most powerful woman on the team," beating the Terriers number two player, Diane Connell...
...contrast, baseball's owners present themselves to the public as the victims of their player's demands, forced to stand pat to prevent the total destruction of the sport by the forces unleashed by the players over the last decade. If they succeed in per-petuating that myth and gaining public support through it, the owners will ensure a long strike. In doing that they will betray player and fan alike in order to cover their own management lapses and gruesome lack of self-discipline...
...line of 102 Archbishops of Canterbury stretching back to Augustine in A.D. 597. The 102nd not only won a Military Cross (as a preclerical Scots Guards officer in World War II for pulling a comrade out of a burning tank) but he happens to be a passable tennis player as well. With magnificent pageantry last week in a cathedral bright with spring daffodils, lilies and notables, Robert Alexander Kennedy Runcie, 58, was installed...