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...hear a lot more about Jimmy," said his rivals last week, "if folks knew how to pronounce his name." Some call it Demaret (to rhyme with croquet), some -including his mother-call it Demaret (to rhyme with croquette), still others put the accent in the middle. But no matter how they pronounce his name, golf fans last week pronounced Jimmy Demaret the No. 1 golfer of the year...
...months ago, Houston-born James Newton Demaret, an apple-cheeked, happy-go-lucky 200-pounder, was just another golf pro named Jimmy. Like most professional golfers, he was born on the wrong side of the fairway, worked as caddy, caddy master and assistant pro before getting a job as head pro at Houston's Bras-Burn Country Club...
This winter, for the 13th year, 29-year-old Jimmy Demaret took time out from his teaching job to join the country's top-notch professionals in the circuit of southern tournaments-still hoping, after years of picking up nothing but experience, to pick up a little cash and prestige. Two years ago he licked famed Sam Snead in the San Francisco Match Play tournament. Last year he won the Los Angeles Open. In golf, almost anything can happen...
Sure enough, this turned out to be the year Jimmy Demaret's number turned up. Playing with magic precision around the green, he made Sam Snead, Byron Nelson, Ralph Guldahl and other champs look like Sunday-morning chumps. In quick succession he won the Oakland Open, the San Francisco Match Play tournament, the Western Open (in his own home town), and the New Orleans Open...
...send a dead body across the Atlantic costs even more than a living person's second or third class fare. When it was ascertained that Mrs. Demaret's husband wished to have her body cremated and the ashes sent home, this was done...