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...halfway mark, when the rain-harried field narrowed down to the 66 lowest scorers, Favorite Sam Snead led the parade along with lanky Horton Smith and bulky Lawson Little - all three tied at 141 for 36 holes. Snead, whose first-round 67 was the lowest opening-round score ever chalked up in the Open, attracted the largest gallery. Maybe this was the year, they figured, that he would outwhammy his famed spotlight jitters...
...hole final, Snead's following thinned out. Word got round that Lawson Little, playing with the same mastery that won the U. S. and British Amateurs in 1934 and 1935, was in the groove...
...stretch finish just as breath-taking as the one to which he treated his gallery at Skokie 18 years ago, Sarazen chalked up the 34 he needed, tied Lawson Little for the championship with a 72-hole total of 287,-eight strokes better than Sam Snead, three strokes better than Hogan, Guldahl and Nelson...
Shaking hands with the new champion, Sarazen might well have said: "I told you so" Lawson Little...
...Missouri's Ozarks, was named out of the Bible. Pioneer Jim Hailey saw the word of II Kings, xvii, 24, liked it. Two months ago, the folk of Ava began to think they could hear the wings of an angel over their town. First, Mrs. E. E. Lawson, whose husband was formerly a storekeeper, now runs a filling station in Ava, got a mysterious letter. It was a cashier's check for $100 with a note attached, which read: ''With the compliments of an oldtime friend." Pleased but puzzled, she wrote the Bank of Union...