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...days before the Western Open, Ben Hogan played a practice round at Buffalo's Brookfield Country Club. After measuring the power of the opposition, and his own fatigue after 18 tournaments in 1948, he said gloomily, "This one I don't expect...
Hollywood laughed when it heard that this young upstart wanted to make pictures himself. His actor friend, Graves, had a terrific idea for a script-about a Bowery bruiser who adopts a baby. Hughes was impressed, laid out $50,000. This picture, Swell Hogan, was such an arrant turkey that it was never released. The wiseacres laughed louder...
...second round, a couple of happy-go-lucky dogs yapped about the course after him (the committee quickly enforced the no-dog rule). At the halfway point, Ben had fallen one stroke behind Sam Snead, and South Africa's dangerous Bobby Locke had moved up to tie Hogan for second...
Chips Down. Next day, with the chips down, cool Ben played Riviera as if he owned it. On "Hogan's Alley" that morning he posted a 68. He began the afternoon round with a birdie and finished it by sinking a six-footer-then flipped the ball casually to an admiring youngster and strode into the clubhouse. His score of 276 chopped five strokes off the U.S. Open record (Ralph Guldahl's 281 at Michigan's Oakland Hills Country Club eleven years ago). The runner-up: fancy-pants Jimmy Demaret, last year's top money winner...
...Somewhere in the past, Ben Hogan learned to "shuffle" a deck of cards. Occasionally, he shows the boys some of his sleight-of-hand tricks, by way of explaining why he never plays poker with them...