Friday, Sep. 24, 1965
Who Won
>Bob Murphy, 22: the National Amateur golf championship, shooting a final round 73, two over par, to beat hard-luck Bob Dickson by one stroke; at the Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Okla. Penalized four strokes in the second round when somebody (apparently, accidentally) put an extra club in his bag, Dickson battled back, only to bogey the last two holes and lose to Murphy, a stubby, cigar-chewing undergraduate from the University of Florida.
> Spain's Manuel Santana, 27: the U.S. National Singles tennis championship, beating South Africa's Cliff Drysdale 6-2, 7-9, 7-5, 6-1 in a final match that was interrupted for 40 min. by rain; at Forest Hills, N.Y. Ranked No. 3 in the world (behind Australia's Roy Emerson and the U.S.'s Dennis Ralston, both of whom were eliminated in the quarter-finals), Santana spent the recess buying 15 pairs of wool socks to wear over his sneakers for better footing on the muddy court, limited Drysdale to one game the rest of the way.
> Tom Rolfe: the $128,100 American Derby, by 2 1/2 easy lengths, at Arlington Park; in Arlington Heights, Ill. Owned by Raymond Guest, U.S. Ambassador to Ireland, the three-year-old colt, win ner of the Preakness Stakes, led most of the way to score his ninth victory in twelve starts this year. Tom Rolfe's next stop: France, and the $150,000-added Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe.
> Gary Player, 29: the World Series of Golf, sinking a 51 -ft. putt on the 35th hole to sew up a three-stroke victory over Jack Nicklaus, and $50,000, golf's biggest prize; in Akron, Ohio. Winner of the U.S. Open, and a gentleman farmer from Magoebaskloff, South Africa, Player headed straight home (via chartered jet to New York, airlines the rest of the way), remarking: "I've got 1,000 trout in my fishponds, and I need all of them because Jack Nicklaus is coming over in February to fish."
> Dave Morehead, 23: a no-hit, no-run game, the American League's first in three years, beating Cleveland 2-0; in Boston. Morehead, whose season's record for the ninth-place Red Sox is a so-so 10-16, walked Cleveland's Rocky Colavito in the second inning. No other Indian reached base.
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