Word: hogans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Louis last month, with the Professional Golfers' Association championship in his grasp, Ben Hogan found the grind just about too hard to take. "I want to die an old man, not a young one," he told reporters. Every golfer in the big time-a businesslike gang that lives a life of tense desperation from hole to hole and tourney to tourney-knew just how he felt. The game had changed from the day of the great Walter Hagen, when a pro played in about 15 tournaments a year. Now it is a year-round business, in which only half...
Last week, little (137 Ibs.) Ben Hogan showed up in Los Angeles (along with 170 others) to play in the U.S. Open. He seemed the coolest of the lot. As always, his face was as phlegmatic as an oldtime faro dealer's.* The long Riviera golf course was to his advantage. Although he insists that "There's no such thing as a course that fits a man's playing style," the boys called Riviera "Hogan's Alley." He had won two Los Angeles Opens there in the past two years...
...Toledo's playboyish Frank ("Muscles") Stranahan was staying abreast of par. But they stayed even with each other, with 795 on the first round. Then Stowe, completely unstarched, bowed to Stranahan 5-&-4. ¶ | At St. Louis, in the $30,000 Professional Golfers Association championship, cool Ben Hogan systematically went about chopping Mike Turnesa to pieces in the final. Hogan won 7-&-6, collected first prize ($3,500) and left for Fort Worth with a motorcycle escort sendoff. The way he felt about the P.G.A.: "You have to finish first or second to make it worth the effort...
Your otherwise accurate magahogan [on Disc Jockey Jim Hawthorne] is far afield in its translation of the name of the home of Hoganites. It is Pasahogan, not Pasadena-hogan as reported in your May 10 issue...
...BELIEVE THE WORD "SCATTYBOO" WHICH TIME USED WILL ALMOST ECLIPSE THE WORD HOGAN AMONG MY FOLLOWERS. IN FACT, THE NEW HOGANSLOGAN IN THESE PARTS IS "SCATTYBOO AND HOGAN...