Word: hogans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Head Immigration official Ralph Remington explained last night that the two officers, Joseph Geary and Walter C. Hogan, had taken Vembu back to the International House to pick up his clothes when he escaped...
Heavy-hitting Jack Mooseman, Holy Cross captain, will start in centerfield. Jack Hetherton and Dick Hogan will play at other outfield posts. Bob Johnson will start at third base, Gene Schiller at short, Paul Brazett at second, and Fran Dyson at first. Pete Maton will catch for the visitors...
Almost lost in the shuffle, but never far from anyone's mind, was Ben Hogan himself. The taciturn Texan, with eleven sub-par practice rounds under his belt, spent the final day of practice just puttering around the putting green. Admitting he was "in grand shape" (he had not played a major tournament in ten months), Hogan made one prediction: the tournament scoring record-279-would be broken. All Ben failed to say was that he would take care of the record-breaking himself...
...water on No. 15, in bunkers on Nos. 17 and 18. Each error cost him a stroke, yet he wound up with a sub-par 70 in a tie for third place-one stroke up on Snead, three on Boros, four on Mangrum. A second-round 69 put Hogan in the lead...
...until the third round that Hogan really took charge. Bantam (139 Ibs.) Ben, playing with chunky (220 Ibs.) Ed Oliver, and often out-hitting him, drew ohs & ahs from a crowd of some 10,000 with his fairway-splitting shots. The ahs changed to outright cheers on the ninth green when golfdom's mechanical man, after careful sighting, crisply stroked a 60-ft. putt into the cup for an outgoing four-under-par 32. The word that went around the Augusta gallery...