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Mother's Old Putter. In the six days of match play, many a good golfer fell by the fairwayside. Skee Riegel narrowly missed defeat in the first round by a Sunday golfer "I've never heard of before," then bowed out in the third. By the fifth round, when Willie Turnesa met Marvin ("Bud") Ward, they were the only ex-titleholders left...
...Boston's Flying Parson, who had won 37 straight, but was out of the trials with a strained Achilles tendon in his left foot. He was off the team-but still far & away the best U.S. miler. After Dodds, the U.S. sure shots, everybody agreed, were Negro Shot-Putter Chuck Fonville of Michigan, Sprinter Mel Patton of Southern California, and Negro High-Hurdler Harrison Dillard of Baldwin-Wallace. Each, in the past year, has broken a world's record...
...story of his having no dark suit spread fast. Most other Italians had only two suits themselves: one to wear to their jobs; one to putter in. "He's one of us," said a white-collar worker as Romans turned out for the Inauguration Day holiday. Added a woman in a blue apron: "He was never one to take the State's money. He saved the lira. He deserves not to pay rent for seven years...
...Giegengack's power-bristling Elis are favored because they thumped the Varsity 82 to 27 in an indoor meet this winter, and because they finished second to NYU in the indoor IC4A meet at New York. They have a pair of IC4A champions in shot-putter Jim Fuchs and hurdler George Cook, plus a flock of other "name" athletes...
...greens was like putting down a marble staircase and trying to stop the ball on the tenth step. They were slick, big (sometimes calling for 100-ft. putts) and agonizingly full of dips, bumps and slopes. Even South Africa's Bobby Locke, regarded as today's best putter, moaned over them, and went astray. Ben Hogan blew up on the third round. But "tournament soft" Claude Harmon played...