Word: par
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Open champion; stolid Ralph Guldahl, two-time (1937-38) U. S. Open champion; happy-go-lucky Jimmy Demaret, winner of five of the twelve tournaments in the recently concluded winter circuit; and breezy Ben Hogan, winner of the last three winter tournaments with an unprecedented total of 34 under par for 216 holes. The quartet was notable because its members were all Texans-Guldahl a Dallasman, Demaret a Houstonian, Nelson and Hogan onetime fellow caddies at Fort Worth's Glen Garden Club...
...Newcomer Lloyd Mangrum, both of Dallas. The Augusta Masters has always produced at least one spectacular round. That day last week those Texans made all previous feats look humdrum. Playing with characteristic nonchalance, chatty Jimmy Demaret-in his first Masters-shot a 67 that included a prodigious six-under-par 30 for the second nine. It was the lowest nine-hole score ever recorded in a major golf tournament. Few minutes later, along came unheralded Lloyd Mangrum to sink a 30-ft. putt on the home green and chalk up a record-breaking, eight-under-par 64 (32-32), probably...
...Crimson outfit is rated on about a par with last year's all powerful aggregation and is a heavy favorite in this afternoon's tilt...
Galandou Diouf claims that he is the only legal representative of 19,000,000 French West African Negroes. Exceedingly well informed on colonial matters, he wants protectorate rights, on a par with Morocco or Algeria, for all French colonies. He would like to be the first colonial Senator and, eventually, Minister of Colonies. Last week he was in trouble -along with a retired colonial bureaucrat named Pierre Francois Tallerie...
...were "bright" (I.Q. 120 or above) -again par...