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Emmett Gary Middlecoff, the golfing dentist from Memphis, sank his final putt for a 286 and began his deathwatch. In the pressroom at Medinah Country Club, 23 miles from Chicago, he dragged alternately at a cigarette and two double-Bourbons with Coke. His wife, Edith, was weeping with excitement, and a friend was prematurely pounding him on the back and burbling, "Boy, you're the champ . . . what a homecoming Memphis will put on for you." Reporters were dispassionately batting out new leads about the biggest golf tournament of them all-the U.S. Open...
...over yet. Still out on Medinah's tough, narrow-waisted fairways, and needing only even pars to tie Middlecoff was Sam Snead. The grapevine buzzed that Snead was hot. "He's burning up that last nine," snapped Middlecoff nervously. "I'm betting I won't win. I'll bet you $10 right now that Snead ties me or beats me." Somebody took...
...next to last hole-Medinah's infamous xyth-balding, slope-shouldered Sam Snead stood on the elevated tee and squinted at the postage stamp green 193 yards away. Snead's tee shot was long, landed in inch-high grass on the apron. It was a simple chip shot, but Sam reached instead for the borrowed putter that had revitalized his game (TIME, June...
Onto the stage of Chicago's Medinah Temple, bag-jowled, loud-mouthed William Hale Thompson, thrice Mayor of Chicago and ready to try once more at 69, last week threw his ten-gallon campaign sombrero while friends yowled...
...Gene Sarazen: the $10,000 Chicago Open; 290 to 291 for Harry Cooper, Horton Smith and Ky Laffoon, over the Medinah Country Club course; at Chicago. Also entered but not among the 86 who qualified for the last day's play were: prodigious u-year-old Donald Dunkelberger of High Point N. C.; one-armed Jimmy Nichols, who swings backhanded, easily drives 250 yards; Mildred ("Babe") Didrikson, 1932 Olympic track star, now a professional golfer...