Monday, Jun. 13, 1955
Scoreboard
P: Intense and studiously silent, U.S. Air Force Lieut. Joe Conrad, 25, allowed himself only a low little pre-putt whistle to relieve the tension of the final round of the British Amateur golf championship. It was enough. Unruffled by the rain and hail that blew off the Irish Sea, Conrad staved off England's Alan Slater and won the match on the Royal Lytham and St. Anne's links by 3 and 2.
P: Rounding into top form despite the strenuous socializing of the European summer tennis circuit, Cincinnati's Tony Trabert breezed past Sweden's Sven Davidson, 2-6, 6-1, 6-4, 6-2, and won the French singles championship for the second year in a row.
P: High in the Himalayas above the Nepal-Sikkim border, members of an expedition led by Britain's Dr. Charles Evans (a veteran of the Hunt-Hillary climb) remembered their manners and halted a few feet from the summit (28,146 ft.) of Mt. Kanchenjunga to avoid offending local gods. Even so, they earned credit for conquering the world's third highest peak (after Everest, 29,028 ft., and Godwin Austen or K2, 28,250 ft.), the highest mountain until then unclimbed.
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