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...Having given up their annual swing around the grapefruit circuit last winter, top-flight golfers got together in the North and South Open at Pinehurst, N.C. New eligibility rule: players must be over 38 or in uniform. With such stars as Ben Hogan, Sam Snead and Byron Nelson missing, Veteran Bobby Cruickshank, 48 and a grandfather, bagged the tournament with a mediocre 292, just 21 strokes above Hogan's winning score last year...
...grapefruit circuit has been reduced. Instead of some two dozen juicy tournaments with $155,000 in prize money, the tour that has helped to develop U.S. pros into the world's greatest golfers will include this year only two: the $5,000 Miami Open and the $5,000 Pinehurst North & South...
...Victor Seixas, 18-year-old University of North Carolina freshman; the North & South Singles tennis championship; defeating Harris Everett, another Tarheel, in the final, 2-6, 6-8, 7-5, 6-0, 6-2; at Pinehurst, N.C. Since Bobby Riggs, Frank Kovacs, Welby Van Horn and Wayne Sabin have turned professional, and Don McNeill and Joe Hunt are in the Navy, young Seixas may be a leading contender for this year's national championship...
Genial, 70-year-old ex-Attorney General Homer Stille Cummings invited 40 of his cronies as usual to play in the 16th annual Homer S. Cummings Golf Tournament at Pinehurst, N. C., then beat the lot for the second successive year. Prepared for this contingency, Champion Cummings got sleek, smart little onetime Ambassador Joseph E. Davies, ex-Ambassador to Belgium and to Russia, now assistant at the State Department, to present him with his own trophy...
...posted 160 (83-77) for the opening 36-hole medal round, five strokes too many to qualify him for the match play that determines the champion. Left to uphold the honor of the crooners' guild was Richard D. ("Dick") Chapman, 29-year-old New York and Pinehurst socialite, whose nightclub warbling has been more lark than livelihood. Playboy Chapman turned in the best medal score-140 (71-69), second lowest in Amateur history...