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Texas is proud of its homebred sport stars: Football's Sammy Baugh, Baseball's Dizzy Dean, Tennis' Wilmer Allison. But when it comes to golf, the Lone Star State has no lone star but a little dipper full: Ralph Guldahl, Byron Nelson, Jimmy Demaret, Ben Hogan, Lloyd Mangrum, Harry Cooper. In the Augusta Masters last year, Texans finished...
Such a team - Byron Nelson, Henry Picard, Sam Snead, Ralph Guldahl, Horton Smith, Paul Runyan, Dick Metz, Jim my Hines, Harold McSpaden, Vic Ghezzi! "From the boys they overlooked I could pick ten that would beat the pants off that team," sneered Sarazen - with a special glare at his old rival, Walter Hagen, chosen captain for the seventh time...
...play's end the first day, it looked sad indeed for Captain Sarazen. Only Demaret & Hogan, the two Texans who have burned up U. S. fairways the past six months, came through with victory in the Scotch foursomes-i up over Sam Snead & Ralph Guldahl. Trailing 1-to-3, the "leftouts" took on their singles assignments with grim determination. Even Captain Sarazen went into the fray. But the best they could do was split the day's matches with the rightful Ryder Cuppers, to lose the two-day battle...
...last week's tournament were: happy-go-lucky Jimmy Demaret (winner of half the tournaments on the winter circuit), up-&-coming little Ben Hogan (who finished in the money in 16 tournaments this year), long-swatting Sam Snead, a mechanically perfect golfer, and onetime Open Champions Ralph Guldahl (1937-38) and Byron Nelson (1939)-none of them over 29 years...
...just as breath-taking as the one to which he treated his gallery at Skokie 18 years ago, Sarazen chalked up the 34 he needed, tied Lawson Little for the championship with a 72-hole total of 287,-eight strokes better than Sam Snead, three strokes better than Hogan, Guldahl and Nelson...