Word: hogans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York cops knew by the head lines that Gambler Frank Erickson was coming - and they baked him a cake. Four days after the pudgy-faced bookmaker told a Senate committee that he was earn ing $100,000 a year from the rackets, Manhattan's District Attorney Frank S. Hogan raided Erickson's oak-paneled Park Avenue office suite. Armed with a warrant, the D.A.'s men spent a leisurely day riffling through the files, trucked away five drawers and three cartons full of canceled checks, stubs, diaries and receipts dating back 14 years...
Lucky 13. There were other determined men present. Australian-born San Franciscan Jim Ferrier used a gimpy backswing (result of a football injury), but he had a delicate putting touch over the tricky greens. By the end of the second day he held a four-stroke lead over Hogan, live strokes over Demaret. Snead and Middlecoff were trailing; the Masters became a pursuit of the seven-under-par pace set by the gangling Australian...
...third round, though Ferrier was leading, the biggest gallery stamped after grim little Ben Hogan, sympathetically cheered his every shot. If anybody could catch the Australian, it seemed to be Ben. Jimmy Demaret, gaudily attired in rose slacks, also kept in the running. For the second day in a row, he got an eagle three on the tough dogleg 13th, finished the round with a par 72. But as they went into the final day Ferrier was still two strokes ahead of Hogan, four up on Demaret. The big reason: his marvelous putting touch, which had kept him 18 under...
...fourth round, on Easter Sunday, Demaret was sartorially splendid in a tasty chartreuse combination, but. after an appreciative glance at Jimmy, the biggest crowd took off after early starter Hogan. It was not to be Ben's day; he closed witha miserable (for him) 76. Jimmy Demaret ended with a snappy 69, helped by a birdie on his favorite 13th. Then, pretty sure of second money, he waited for Ferrier to finish...
...three strokes. Instead, his trusty putter began to vibrate under the tension, shook him into misses for a costly 75. Demaret backed into the title by two strokes. His winning score for 72 holes: a five-under-par 283. The runners-up: Ferrier (285), Snead (287), and Hogan and Texas' Byron Nelson (288 apiece...