University Daily Kansan Tuesday, April 11, 1961
Palmer Falls on 18th; Player Wins Masters
AUGUSTA, Ga. — (UPI) — Little Gary Player of South Africa is the new Masters Champion only because Arnold Palmer is human after all.
The new king of golf is only five feet, seven inches tall and weighs "about 152 pounds soaking wet," but he has the touch of Midas on the greens.
THAT GOLDEN TOUCH would not have been enough to win yesterday, however, had not Palmer, noted for his super-human finishes, faltered on the 72nd and final hole just when it looked like he had his second straight Masters Championship all locked up.
Palmer summed up his downfall in a nutshell.
"I thought sixes happened only to other people," he said sadly, thus proving that he, too, can fall down in the clutch.
The Masters has seen some fantastic finishes in its 25 playings, but none to rival the drama and suspense of that 72nd hole yesterday. Here was the situation:
Here was the situation
PLAYER, WITH WHAT APPEARED a drastic closing nine of four over par 40 — which included
Machen Pounds DeJohn for Win
SAN FRANCISCO — (UPI) — Eddie Machen, a calm man turned tiger, waited today for a call from promoters and a crack at Floyd Patterson's World Heavyweight Crown
Machen, the number two challenger, made a punching bag out of sixth-ranked Mike DeJohn last night as he pounded his way to a bloody and unanimous 10-round decision.
DeJohn never was in contention in the big heavyweight battle before 9,000 fans at the Cow Palace. He started bleeding from the nose in the fifth round and by the end of the fight the gore covered him.
a double bogey, was sitting in a cottage bordering the Masters' course, figure that second place money of $12,000 was not bad at all.
He had little hope for the $20,-050 first prize money for all Palmer had to do was match par on the relatively easy 420-yard, par four final hole — a hole he birdied last year to win the title by one stroke.
PALMER, WHO HAS KNOWN little golf adversity, studied his final putt a long time and then stroked it too strongly, the ball going six inches past the cup. He tapped it in and became an ex-champion while Player's purse suddenly increased $8,000.
Player, too, had his faltering, human moments on the back nine of the par 36-36—72, 6,980-yard Masters' course.
Player closed it out with three pars for 34-40-74 and a total of 280 — eight shots under par.
Palmer's final round card was 33-38 — 71 for his 281 total.
CHICAGO — (UPI) The explosive Chicago Black Hawks were halfway to Hockey's most prized trophy, the Stanley Cup, today.
Chicago Takes Entry Deadline Hockey Lead Set for IMs
The Black Hawks blasted three goals within six minutes and 23 seconds to trip the Detroit Red Wings, 3-1, and take a 2-to-1 lead in games in their best-of-seven series.
The Hawks, with goalie Glenn Hall holding the Wings scoreless for almost 50 minutes in a bid for his third shutout in 9 playoff games, were superior all the way.
Their scoring burst in the second period by Stan Mikita, Ron Murphy and Murray Balfour nearly duplicated a splurge of three goals in three minutes and 36 seconds which led to a win in the first game of the championship round. This is the Hawks' first bid in the Cup finals since 1944.
Detroit, with goalie Hank Bassen making 33 saves, compared to 35 for Hall, staged a serious threat only in the early minutes of the second period. Howe scored the only Red Wings' goal when he had nearly a solo chance at Hall after Chicago lost the puck on its own ice.
White Sox Defeat Senators
United Press International
This may be a "New Frontier" season for baseball, but the champion Pittsburgh Pirates and New York Yankees start play today with the same old lineups that were good enough to win them pennants in 1960.
THE NEW ERA of expansion, launched yesterday when the new Washington Senators made a 4-3 losing debut against the Chicago White Sox in the nation's capital, gets into full swing today when the 16 other clubs open their 1961 season.
For the most part, the openingday pitching assignments were entrusted to such old hands as Robin Roberts, Warren Spahn, Whitey Ford and Bob Friend.
But the Inaugural Day lineups also will include approximately 15 rookies eager to live up to the impressive showing made yesterday in Washington by a presidential rookie named John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
PRESIDENT KENNEDY made one of the longest ceremonial tosses on record to start the new season and then sat back among the crowd of 26,725 to watch manager Mickey Vernon and his novice ballclub take on the White Sox.
The Senators promptly showed the president and fellow fans a giveaway program that Congress never would have dared to pass. The Washington club made four errors to lose the game and become the first club ever to occupy 10th place in the American League standings.
Walter Mikels, director of men's intramural athletics, has set the deadline date for all entries for competition for spring intramurals as Thursday, April 13.
There will be a meeting of all team managers in 203 Robinson at 4 p.m. Friday.
Team play will be held in badminton, handball, horseshoes, tennis and softball. Badminton, handball and horseshoes will be conducted on a single elimination basis. The golf tournament will be a one day affair. The date for the tourney has not been announced.
There will be A and B competition in softball, with play beginning Monday, April 17.
Changes Sports
NEW YORK — (UPI) — Coach Carl Braun of the New York Knickerbockers of the National Basketball Association played in the minor leagues as a farmhand of the New York Yankees.
BOSTON — (UFI) — The Boston Celtics will be out to wind up the 1960-1961 basketball season tonight—a few hours after Boston's 1961 baseball season opens.
Baseball, Basketball Collide in Boston
The Celtics could make it three straight National Basketball Association championships and four out of five with a win over the St. Louis Hawks at the Garden. The Red Sox opened their season this afternoon, playing the Kansas City Athletics.
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