Word: middlecoff
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...stayed away missed seeing the three "big names" flop. Down & out in the first round went favored Frank ("Muscles") Stranahan, who had beaten the pros several times. Next day finished off the other two: Bud Ward, winner of the last U.S. Amateur in 1941, and out-of-practice Gary Middlecoff, an Army dentist who is regarded by golf's wise man, Walter Hagen, as "potentially the best hitter of the ball I've ever seen, pros not excepted." The finalists were tall Ted Bishop, a reformed pro* from Dedham, Mass., and a sawed-off Californian with a comic...
...week, played on the country's third toughest course, Perfectionist Nelson slipped on an early 18-inch putt, blamed wet turf, then rolled flawlessly home with a winning 284. Nelson's most likely challenger was not present: a hit-'em-a-mile amateur, Army Lieutenant Gary Middlecoff, who burned up the fairways while on furlough last fall...
...moves with the speed of Stepin Fetchit. To rival golfers last week he became known as the "Virginia Creeper." But, creeping or no, Virginia's Brooke, during six days of rain, swamped one adversary after another. After Burke, went Princeton's Arnold Zimmerman, Mississippi's Gary Middlecoff, Holy Cross's Eddie Foy.* In the 36-hole final, Brooke faced the toughest foe of all: bespectacled Harry Hoyt Haverstick of Swarthmore...