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...days before the Western Open, Ben Hogan played a practice round at Buffalo's Brookfield Country Club. After measuring the power of the opposition, and his own fatigue after 18 tournaments in 1948, he said gloomily, "This one I don't expect...
Next day in the playoff, Hogan played like the champion he is. Crisp and determined, he was over par on only one hole, had nothing but 43 and 35 on his card. His 64 for the round was a sensational eight under par, and two strokes under the Brookfield record. Porky Oliver, with a lackluster 73, suffered the worst play-off drubbing since Bobby Jones trimmed Al Espinosa by 23 strokes in a 36-hole playoff in the 1929 National Open. Oliver joined the Hogan rooters, cheerfully shouted "Get in!" at Hogan's putts. They did, and Hogan became...
...exact, 64 years. Connie broke in as a catcher with the East Brookfield (Mass.) club in 1883, when catchers caught barehanded, on the first bounce...
...When in 1935 oil-heir husband William Hale Harkness Jr. died of cancer in Shanghai, spunky Manhattan Dress Designer Ruth promptly sailed off to continue his interrupted giant panda hunt, found a one-pound baby panda nestled in a Tibetan tree trunk, brought it back to Chicago's Brookfield...
Philadelphia's zoo, founded in 1859, claims to be the oldest in the land. Chicago's Brookfield, opened in 1934, is the newest of the big zoos; it emphasizes quantity-49 kangaroos, an antelope collection of 29 species. St. Louis, where Perkins was trained, has the most showmanlike zoo, with elaborate daily performances by trained chimps, elephants and lions...