Word: circuiter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years now Congress has succeeded in juggling the white hot national health issue with a dexterity amazing even for so nimble fingered veterans of the political sleight of hand circuit as fill the Capital halls. Last Saturday ringmaster Harry C. Truman informed the boys that it was time to cut the act short...
...recent winter circuit, Middlecoff began burning up the links at Harlingen, Tex., where he won the Rio Grande Valley Open. He was second at St. Petersburg, but won the Miami Four-ball (with help from Partner Jim Ferrier) and the Jacksonville Open...
...when the pressure of big-time golf began to keep Byron Nelson from sleeping nights, he quit the tournament circuit. Nelson worked on his 730-acre Texas ranch, drove a tractor, played a little exhibition golf during the summer. But he came out each year for the Masters, exposing himself to the rigors of tournament competition...
Same Old Faces. On the pro circuit things hadn't changed much since 1946. Most of the men who had dominated tournament play when Nelson left were still on top. At the end of the winter circuit, dapper Lloyd Mangrum, 34, led the pack in prize money (with $9,707); close on his heels in second place (with $9,110) was Sam Snead, 36, the country boy from the Allegheny Mountains of Virginia...
...Chickasaw Golf Club. At the age of twelve young Cary fired a 77 one day to beat the old man. Like father, he studied to be a dentist, practiced in the Army and with his father after getting his discharge. He played now & then on the big-time golf circuit as an amateur while debating whether to be a full-time golfer or full-time dentist. In 1947, after he married Edith Buck, an airline stewardess, he decided in favor of golf and turned...