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Improving steadily after his first-round scare, Ward came up against Booe in the semifinals and took his measure. In the finals, against Bill Hyndman, 39, a Pennsylvania insurance executive who won the Philadelphia Amateur 20 years ago, Ward could do no wrong...
Fluid Swing. It had been happening all week. First-round scores were amazingly high; half the field failed to break 80. As the tournament shook down, the big names vanished. Defending Champion Ed Furgol never figured; Samuel Jackson Snead, with two good rounds under his belt, exploded all over the course. ("Well, I've had my opportunity, boy," he muttered to his caddy.) Now, going to the 14- green on the fourth round was the one man who still had a chance of catching Hogan: Jack Fleck, 32, a loose-jointed sharpshooter out of Davenport, Iowa, who never took...
...winner meets defending N.C.A.A. champion LaSalle Friday night in Philadelphia. Last night LaSalle won an easy first-round victory over West Virginia, 96 to 61, in New York...
Died. Frank Erne (rhymes with churny), 79, onetime lightweight (1899-1902) boxing champion, conqueror in 1900 of the immortal Joe Gans (to whom he lost the crown in a rematch that ended with a first-round, one-punch knockout), in recent years the oldest living ex-champion; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan...
Crimson wrestlers Ed Moriarity, Phil Horrera, John Ray, and Bob Hook lost by pins, while Frank Baker and heavyweight Pete Morrison dropped first-round decisions...