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Captain Jackie Burke Jr., P.G.A. Champ Lionel Hebert, Dow Finsterwald-one after another, the others of the American team took an embarrassing whipping...
...timers were knocked out. Even Sammy Snead could not survive the tournament's fourth round. When the four semifinalists teed off last week in the Professional Golfers' Association championship in Dayton, Ohio, the gallery fastened on two businesslike young-timers: lean Dow Finsterwald, 27, playing his first P.G.A., and chunky Lionel ("Frenchy") Hebert,* 29, who had never won a major tournament...
From their first drives, the young pros buckled down confidently to the high-pressure match play, a hole-by-hole, pair-by-pair elimination contest in which the player who takes the most holes wins the round. Ohioan Finsterwald. playing a cool game in 93° heat, won-by two holes over California's Don Whitt, 26, despite a tremendous rally by Whitt that included a startling hole-in-one on the 145-yd. 13th. Hebert, meanwhile, was hitting his approach shots with machine-gun precision, putting straight enough on Dayton's tricky greens to knock off Michigan...
...finals Frenchy Hebert and Dow Finsterwald matched stroke for stroke. Striding up to the 34th tee Hebert led by a single hole. Then Finsterwald cracked. By the time he had retrieved a shot from a ditch under a bridge, he was down two, with only two to play. Calmly Young-Timer Hebert matched his opponent's par three on the 35th hole and, winner 2 and 1, walked off with top prize money of $8,000. It was nearly three times as much as he had won all year...
Maxine Block's Eyes (Morse Players of St. Louis) and Maxine Finsterwald's Seven Against One (Association Players Stock Company, Manhattan) were the plays singled out for the two Samuel French (play publisher) $200 prizes awarded to the best unpublished dramas. In Eyes an old paralytic stared on while her grandchildren sank into corruption, but rose and walked when a ruffian tried to seduce her granddaughter in her presence. Seven Against One, played on a double stage, showed a group of patriotic priests praying for the death of a dictator who had jailed them. On the other side...