Friday, Sep. 22, 1961
Scoreboard
> The course at Pebble Beach, Calif., was drenched in rain, shrouded by fog and whipped by wind during the day's play. But blond, burly Jack Nicklaus, 21, a student at Ohio State University, proved again that he was the world's finest amateur golfer by routing 22-year-old Dudley Wysong of McKinney, Texas, 8 and 6, to regain the U.S. National Amateur Golf Championship he had won in 1959.
> But for dependable Darlene Hard of Montebello, Calif., the U.S. national amateur tennis championships would have been a complete misnomer. The only American to get past the quarterfinals, Darlene beat Britain's Ann Haydon at Forest Hills, N.Y., 6-3, 6-4, for her second straight title. In an all-Australian men's final, the fifth in six years, Roy Emerson pulled a major upset, routed top-seeded Rod Laver 7-5, 6-3, 6-2.
> Cincinnati Right-Hander Joey Jay, who had never won more than nine games in a season for the Milwaukee Braves be fore they traded him off last winter, became the first National Leaguer to win 20 games in 1961 by winning a 1-0 four-hitter from his former teammates. In the American League, Detroit's Frank Lary finally joined New York's Whitey Ford in the 20-game circle with a 3-1 five-hitter against Kansas City.
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