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...Manhasset, L. I., Joseph Smithanna, marine patrolman, putt-putted out to rescue 250-lb. Vera Nielson, struggled manfully to pull her into his boat, failed. Nothing daunted, small Patrolman Smithanna slung a rope around large, patient Vera Nielson, towed her to safety...
...seventh green of the breezy morning round, Helen Hicks missed a two-foot putt that would have made her one up. It looked serious at the time but seven holes farther on Helen Hicks might well have forgotten it because she was four up and it looked as though Virginia Van Wie's game had cracked completely. By lunch time, she had cause to brood about that putt again;.her opponent had cut her lead to two, with a fine four at the 16th and a good putt for another at the 18th. In the afternoon, with the wind...
...often happens in golf, luck and good playing went together. On the short 7th, with the match all square, the defending champion sank a 45-ft. putt for a two. It made her one up for the first time in 21 holes. Trying desperately to catch up, Helen Hicks had a good chance at the 9th, until her opponent laid her a dead stymie. A 75-yd. spade shot that stopped three inches from the cup at the 12th put Miss Van Wie three up. On the 15th, both balls were on the green in two, but Helen Hicks...
...best round she ever played. Impeccable as a stylist, brilliant with her irons and steady with her woods. Miss Van Wie is not always as sure on the greens as she was last week. Once she won a match from Maureen Orcutt when, after she missed a putt of 12 in., Miss Orcutt missed...
...seldom nearer to the pin with his approaches. Shute, who said later that he had set himself the task of keeping ahead of Wood for the first round, had one tight moment when his approach caught Ginger-beer bunker on the 14th. He pitched out, sank his putt for a birdie and ended the first 18 holes still three strokes up. In the afternoon, Wood took 39 to the turn as he had done in the morning. At the 33rd, he was still five strokes behind. Shute, his long iron shots travelling to the greens as though they were...