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Crack! A golf ball soared off the first tee at the Pittsburgh Field Club, dwindled to a white speck, landed on the fairway, rolled to a stop. Officials noted its exact position: 313 yd. 17 in. from the spot where it had been hit. That drive, hit last Sunday afternoon before a big gallery of other professionals, got its author, 24-year-old Professional Sam Snead of White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., $200, first prize in Sports Illustrated'?, first annual driving contest, held as a curtain-raiser to the Professional Golfers Association annual tournament which started the next...
...week Mysterious Montague descended abruptly from fiction to reality. At Los Angeles' Lakeside Club, freelance Photographer Bob Wallace trailed him onto the golf course, hid in a clump of bushes, snapped him twice with a telephoto lens, as he was putting and as he was marching down the fairway, niblick in hand. After taking the pictures, Photographer Wallace handed the film to his brother, popped a dummy magazine into his camera. Golfer Montague, who had heard the shutter click, ran over to Photographer Wallace, took the camera away, removed the dummy magazine, destroyed...
...American Guild of Musical Artists' first public gesture apparently made a favorable impression on the Immigration Committee. Probably the only trade association ever formed on a fairway, the Guild was born when Baritones Tibbett and Frank Chapman, Gladys Swarthout's husband, went to Englewood, N. J. for a golfing holiday in 1933, spent their time talking musical politics and economy instead. Formally launched last April, the Guild has 115 charter members whose names, accustomed to appear in electric lights, include: Jascha Heifetz, Efrem Zimbalist, Alma Gluck, Lily Pons, Rosa Ponselle, Mischa Elman, Lucrezia Bori, George Gershwin, Grace Moore...
...must concentrate, dear," purred a U. S. woman spectator to freckled, 18-year-old Patricia Jane ("Patty") Berg last week as they strode down a fairway of the seaside golf course at Southport, England. "I am concentrating hard," tearfully replied U. S. Golfer Berg, "but nothing happens." In spite of concentration, by the 18th hole Patty had missed five putts of less than five feet, lost her second-round match to Elsie Corlett of Lancashire. Other favorites fell even more quickly than Patty, whom British bookmakers had backed as the No. 1 U. S. entrant in the Women...
...putt he would practice until one ball plunked the bottom of the cup. He never walked around the course. As soon as he hit a shot, a caddy would bring him a bicycle. Tucking his feet on the handlebars he would have the caddy trundle him up the fairway. Unlike his friend Andrew Carnegie, who got hopping mad when he misplayed, pious Golfer Rockefeller merely bowed his head at adversity clucked: "Shame, shame, shame...