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University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, May 18. 1960
Crocker Leading Golfer In Women's Competition
By United Press International
By United Press International
Fay Crocker has to be the combination Ben Hogan and Doug Ford of women's golf.
The brown-eyed belter from Montevideo will be 46 years old in August. Yet, with the matchless precision of a hawk she:
Leads the money winners on the ladies professional golfers' circuit; has the year's lowest scoring average; has been in the money in 60 straight tournaments, and out of the money only twice in seven years.
And, with the endurance of the burly Ford, she has missed only three tournaments since turning professional in January of 1954 two of those because of previous commitments; travels some 50,000 miles a year; plays 30 tournaments a year and also gives 59 to 80 exhibitions and clinics.
"Retire?** she grins. "What for? Why, I feel better now than I did when I was 25 years old. Maybe I'll be like Patty Berg and say I'll quit when I'm 50—but I start working backwards on my age next year."
That's because Fay knows or cares little for anything but golf. And she insists that it's "high time" older women realized that it is a game which isn't just for kids.
"Sure, I'm strong physically, take good care of myself and get a lot of rest," she explained. "But I have no special diet, outside of only eating twice a day, and I get all the exercise I need out of golf. It gives me a pain when women say "I'm too old to play golf." Maybe for championship golf, sure, but they still can have a lot of fun and keep themselves fit."
Her endurance record as a woman professional has been little short of phenomonal. Playing her seventh year as a pro, she has missed only three of 168 tournaments; the first in 1956 because she was playing with Jack Fleck in the National Golf Day match; the second because of a previously planned exhibition, and the third with a foot injury.
"That marked the first time since 1932 that I had to withdraw from a tournament," she explained proudly. "Even in the 1957 Titleholders, when I shot a 92 on the first round, I didn't withdraw. The next day I had a 70."
Dean's Present Again
MIAMI, Fla. — (UPI)—Jim Fitzsimmons, dean of American race horse trainers, celebrates his 28th consecutive season at Barn A at Hialeah this season.
Slow Year
BOSTON — (UPI) — Dom DiMaggio topped the American League with 15 stolen bases in 1950, lowest theft total ever recorded by a winner in that department.
The members of the winning team and their scores were Ed Saylor, 81; Bob Adams, 82; Charles Hotchkiss, 85 and Robert Roulier, 86.
Mayer shot a 77 to capture the medalist honors.
Sixty-six men representing 14 teams participated in the tournament.
The winners picked up 1957 pins to edge the Set-ups for the title. Third place went to Alpha Chi Omega with 1958 and Sigma Kappa finished fourth with 1825.
This marks the third straight bowling championship for the winners and gives them 25 points in the race for the Women's Recreation Association total-point trophy.
Alpha Omicron Pi won the KU women's bowling championship by one pin Saturday.
One of Oklahoma's freshman wrestlers is Houshail Sabouri-Ford, a civil engineering student from Teheran, Iran. After enrolling at Norman, he changed his name to "Bob Ford" and now everybody asks him if he's the guy who shot Jesse James.
Alpha Omicron Pi Wins Bowling Title
Beta Theta Pi won the intramural golf tournament Saturday at Lawrence Country Club with 334 strokes.
The Beta's total for the 18 hoie round edged Phi Delta Theta. Phi Gamma Delta finished third. George
Far better than succeeding regularly is a good tough falling-short of a challenge. —Agnes de Mille
Betas Win Intramural Title
Frank Joins NIBL Team
He is the second college standout to join the NIBL champs since the close of the past season.
BARTLESVILLE, Okla.—(UPI)—An All-Big Eight Conference forward from Kansas State University, Wally Frank, has notified Coach Bud Browning that he will be a candidate for the Phillips 69 NIBL basketball team for 1960-61.
LOST
Grafmatic film holder, black. Lost Dec. 20th,1959 near Danforth Chapel. Important wedding pictures. REWARD.
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