June 16, 1961

June 16, 1961

            Researching the New York Times Archives for events that happened on June 16, 1961, I found many interesting topics that I wanted to write about, but none of the issues that caught my interest included at least three references. The only subjects that had three or more references included government and sports.

            The sporting highlights include several golf classics, as well as, numerous tennis matches. There were no football games either pro or collegiate, nor were there any basketball games. Although there were no football games, there was a quick mention that the Titan’s signed three players to their team. There were two International Soccer games one played in Italy, and the other played in Montreal.  In addition to these sports, there was one National Collegiate baseball game.

            The golf tournaments included both amateur and professional games. New Jersey State held two separate annually celebrated tournaments. The men’s tournament for amateurs was in Bloomfield, NJ, where they celebrated their sixtieth event and women’s Metropolitan Golf Association was in Montclair, NJ, where they celebrated their fifty-eighth championship that year. There was one other amateur golf championship held in Turnberry, Scotland, where an American Airman was able to move into the quarterfinals (Morrow). The final golfing event was a US Open championship in Birmingham, MI at the Oakland Hills Country Club. This golf course, nicknamed “The Monster”, is the most terrorizing course that golf can offer, and it lived up to it at this event (Arthur).

            There were several different tennis matches held, and they ranged from Intercollegiate to Championship games for both men and women. The Brooklyn men’s championship held their quarter finals at the Knickerbocker Field Club located in Brooklyn, NY while the Kent women’s championship games were in Beckenham, England in which two Australians defeated the top American women. There were also matches held at Wimbledon in Bristol, England for both men and women, where Australia’s top player, Rod Laver, announced that, “he was ready to turn professional if he won the English title at Wimbledon” (Howard).

Works Cited

By, ARTHUR D. "Sports of the Times." New York Times (1923-Current file): 39. Jun 16 1961.

      ProQuest. Web. 9 Feb. 2014.

"HOWARD BOWS IN TENNIS." New York Times (1923-Current file): 38. Jun 16 1961. ProQuest. Web.

      9 Feb. 2014 .

"Morrow Wins Twice and is Only American Left in British Amateur." New York Times (1923-Current

      file): 39. Jun 16 1961. ProQuest. Web. 9 Feb. 2014.