Word: demarets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...windbag, the little Roman promptly named his challengers: Old-timers Tom my Armour, Harry Cooper, Billie Burke, Craig Wood, Jimmy Thomson, Al Watrous, Lawson Little and Newcomers Jim my Demaret, Ben Hogan, Ed Oliver...
...play's end the first day, it looked sad indeed for Captain Sarazen. Only Demaret & Hogan, the two Texans who have burned up U. S. fairways the past six months, came through with victory in the Scotch foursomes-i up over Sam Snead & Ralph Guldahl. Trailing 1-to-3, the "leftouts" took on their singles assignments with grim determination. Even Captain Sarazen went into the fray. But the best they could do was split the day's matches with the rightful Ryder Cuppers, to lose the two-day battle...
Most golf fans agreed with him. Favorites among the 170 cream-of-the-crop golfers who qualified for last week's tournament were: happy-go-lucky Jimmy Demaret (winner of half the tournaments on the winter circuit), up-&-coming little Ben Hogan (who finished in the money in 16 tournaments this year), long-swatting Sam Snead, a mechanically perfect golfer, and onetime Open Champions Ralph Guldahl (1937-38) and Byron Nelson (1939)-none of them over 29 years...
...wins, minus one for every hole he loses to each of the other 14 with a score of plus 23; over Long Island's Fresh Meadow links. To Winner Hogan went $1,000, upping his 1940 tournament earnings to $7,538 only $239 behind Fellow Texan Jimmy Demaret, this year's leading money winner, who scored minus eleven in last week's tournament...
With Fred Waring's noisiest musicians tooting & trumpeting at tee & green, with 5,000 spectators chattering, cheering and rattling the putter, Demaret & Ruth defeated Sarazen & Tunney, 2 & 1. Demaret shot a par 72, Sarazen 73, Ruth and Tunney 82 each. The gallery voted it more fun than a circus...