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...putt. On the 420-yd. 18th, his second shot left him 40 ft. from the pin; his long curling putt for a birdie slid an inch past the cup. The tap-in gave him an even-par 288, locked him in a three-way tie with Jacobs and Gay Brewer...
Died. Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, 72, younger of World War I's draft-dodging brothers; of pneumonia; in Richmond, Va. The playboy sons of a wealthy German-American brewer in Philadelphia, Grover and his brother Erwin skipped town to avoid a draft call in 1918, declaring that they would not "fight against our kind." Erwin eventually surrendered, but Grover led the cops on a chase around the U.S. for a year and a half before he was found hiding inside a window seat in his mother's mansion. Sentenced to five years, he soon escaped, and this time fled...
...RICHARD BREWER Assistant Professor of English Monmouth College West Long Branch...
Died. Edward Bremer, 67, St. Paul banker and brewer who was kidnaped by the notorious Barker-Karpis gang in 1934, gained freedom 22 days later on payment of a $200,000 ransom, but had seen and heard enough despite attempts to keep him blindfolded to help the FBI track down his 15 abductors, who either died in gun battles (Ma Barker, her son Fred) or went to prison; of a heart attack; in Pompano Beach...
Died. Erwin R. Bergdoll, 74, World War I draft dodger, the playboy son of a German-American brewer in Philadelphia, who, with his better known younger brother, Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, proclaimed "we do not wish to fight against our own kind," skipped around the country from 1918 to 1920, sending federal authorities postcards until he finally surrendered (Grover fled to Germany) and served half of a four-year sentence; of a heart attack; in Camden...