Word: hebert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...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's Walter Burkemo, 38, one of the game's canniest match players...
...time Open Champion Gary Middlecoff and San Francisco Hotelman Ed Crowley finished with 187. to set a tournament record and win the team title, golfers and gallery alike were too relaxed to care much that Florida's Jay Hebert had won the individual pro prize of $2,500-though it was a pleasant excuse for raising a glass in one last toast...
...driving rain washed the front-runners right out of the money in the final round of the Los Angeles Open golf tournament. But former P.G.A. Champion Doug Ford splashed out of the pack with a 280-stroke total to edge Florida's Jay Hebert away from the $7,000 first prize by a stroke...
...answer, as explained in the Congressional Record last week by Illinois' Democratic Representative Sidney Yates: Hebert had been listening to a tiny transistor radio, tucked inside his coat pocket and hooked up with a hearing-aid-type earphone...