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Defending Champion Sammy Snead of West Virginia and U.S. Open Champion Gary Middlecoff of Tennessee were the prematch favorites. Bantam Ben Hogan and breezy Jimmy Demaret, both Texans, were the second choices. Hogan, patiently reconstructing his game after his 1949 auto accident, was unmistakably the sentimental favorite. His comeback had backfired last winter, but he had been toiling over the Augusta course for a week, determined to win the one major championship that had eluded him all through his career...
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...
Although practically no places are open now for upperclassmen in the NROTC, opportunities in the naval reserve are almost unlimited, said Lieutenant Commander William Hogan, of the Boston Office of Officer Procurement. Hogan added that the expanding naval air program needs...
GOLF: Bobby Jones (293), Ben Hogan (40), Walter Hagen...