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...reach the top. He was raised in Bridgeport, son of an Italian contractor. The first man was Walter Hagen, son of a German greenskeeper in Rochester. Now the U. S. tournaments are full of Ciucis, Espinosas, Kozaks, Turnesas, and the U. S. open champion is Billy Burke, born Burkowski, son of a Lithuanian steel worker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Sarazen at Sandwich | 6/20/1932 | See Source »

...other was William Burkowski who started to call himself Billy Burke when he gave up being a puddler in a steel mill and became golf professional at the fashionable Round Hill Club in Greenwich, Conn. A ponderous, muscular fellow, he smokes large black cigars when golfing, observes few of the niceties usually appreciated by onetime caddies whose golfing proficiency has enabled them to know nice people. Before the Open started, theorists spoke well of Burke's chances. The week before, in the Ryder Cup matches, he had kept his wooden shots straight, a trick that would be valuable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Inverness | 7/13/1931 | See Source »

...Buffalo, N. Y., Mrs. Anna Sahl found William Burkowski-hacking at her front porch with an axe. Rebuked, William Burkowski admitted that he was a housewrecker, that he had mistaken her house for that of a client...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Roomer | 4/28/1930 | See Source »

...confused with William ("Billy Burke") Burkowski, famed golf professional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Roomer | 4/28/1930 | See Source »

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