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...Brien mine near Kirkland Lake, Ont., speculators caressed a new-found slab of what mining men call "jewelry"-a ten-pound chunk of practically pure gold worth $2,000. At Noranda's golf course, golfers played around two gold-drilling sites smack in the middle of a fairway. The gold stock market reached its highest point in four years...
...popped back into the sports pages by winning a major golf tournament. Now 30, she trounced a 20-year-old college girl, Dorothy Germain, in the finals of the Women's Western Open, at Chicago. As usual, Babe's booming drives were seldom in the fairway, but her recoveries were so phenomenal that she had 14 one-putt greens in 31 holes...
...slices has as good a chance as you? My answer is that you, Mr. Sniffer, are probably the man who slices and in your heart you'd be extremely happy to find that you didn't have to lose three strokes three feet off the fairway...
Averaging 70.3 strokes per round in 172 rounds of tournament golf is a feat Bobby Jones, Walter Hagen and every other fairway immortal would be proud to have accomplished. The golfer who has chalked up this incredible record is little Ben Hogan, a Texas-bred 135-pounder...
...Louis is not only the Gene Tunney but the Bobby Jones of his race. He has done more than any other person to popularize golf among Negroes. But on the fairway, Joe is no Jones. Aided by his mighty right, he can sock a ball nearly 300 yards. "But," he moans, "I have trouble with my left hook and just ain't got that delicate touch around the greens." Still, under the private instruction of Bermudian Pro Louis Corbin and Washingtonian Clyde Martin, his present tutor, Louis has become a better than average golfer, has often chalked up scores...