Monday, Mar. 18, 1957
Scoreboard
P: Unbothered by blustery Florida weather, California's Barbara Romack, 24, relaxed and thought about her approaching marriage to Golf Pro Buddy Porter. She also played the best golf of her career, beat Florida's Ann Middlemas, 16, by an easy 5-and-4 in the Florida East Coast women's amateur at St. Augustine.
P: Toughened up by energetic devotion to his career as a gentleman farmer, Northrup Knox, 28, of Buffalo, N.Y. and Aiken, S.C., demonstrated an almost tireless skill at the esoteric game of court tennis. After an afternoon's romp on the court at Boston's Tennis and Racquet Club, Knox left longtime (eight years) Champion Alastair Bradley Martin, 42, limp with exhaustion, won the U.S. amateur singles championship, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4.
P: With his countryman John Landy, the world's fastest miler, on hand to watch him perform, Australia's Herb Elliott, 19, spun around the fine track at Melbourne's Olympic Stadium in a spectacular 4:00.4. Sure that he had seen his probable successor, retired Champion Landy announced: "Here is the greatest natural runner I have ever seen."
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