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...eligible to play with the Seniors (two rounds instead of four), one must be 55 or over. Last week, when the field's first half had turned in their cards, tied at 156 were 65-year-old onetime Champion Douglas and 59-year-old Archibald M. Brown, classmate of Franklin D. Roosevelt at Groton and Harvard. Mr. Douglas' first-round 73 (eight strokes better than Sam Snead's last-round score in the U. S. Open fortnight ago) equaled the lowest score ever recorded in 35 years of Senior competition...
...halfway mark, when the rain-harried field narrowed down to the 66 lowest scorers, Favorite Sam Snead led the parade along with lanky Horton Smith and bulky Lawson Little - all three tied at 141 for 36 holes. Snead, whose first-round 67 was the lowest opening-round score ever chalked up in the Open, attracted the largest gallery. Maybe this was the year, they figured, that he would outwhammy his famed spotlight jitters...
...Sandwich- To get to Royal St. George's Club in time for his first-round match, Brigadier General Alfred Cecil Critchley, London sports promoter, sailed from New York on the Normandie, took a speedboat to the dock at Southampton, chartered a plane, flew to the course, waved at the starter to identify himself, landed at a nearby airport, rushed up to the first tee. He arrived three minutes after the match had been awarded to his opponent by default...
There will be just one doublee tournament for which the draw will be made on Wednesday. In the singles competitions all first-round matches must be played today...
...named for the Manhasset estate of John Hay Whitney. He is the team's backer, and, although his handicap is only 5, its Back. Minuscule Pete Bostwick plays No. 1. On paper the strongest team in the tournament (31 goals) is Templeton, which had a first-round bye. It includes three of the four players who beat England at Hurlingham in June-Winston Guest at Back, Stewart Iglehart at No. 3, Michael Phipps at No. 1. The only change-James Mills, onetime Yale captain, for Eric Pedley- should not greatly upset the combination...