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When he bet Actor Bing Crosby the he could beat him with a baseball bat, shovel and a garden rake, the match ende after one hole because Montague started off with a birdie, using the rake as putter. With golf clubs, he almost neve scores above the 60s. His best score : 61, made at Palm Springs, where he lowered the course record every day for four days in a row. Two years ago Golfer Von Elm said he had played golf with Mysterious Montague for a month without seeing him score above...
...husband of onetime Cinemactress Viola Dana and the longest driver in golf, wore the same green socks every day, washing them himself at night. His conviction that they brought him luck was not contradicted by victories over Henry Picard, Harold McSpaden, Craig Wood. Wild Bill Melhorn appeared with a putter that had a head like a croquet mallet. With it he putted well enough to be two up with four to play in his semi-final match with Denny Shute. Shute won on the 36th green. Next morning he and Thomson went out on the fragrant No. 2 course...
...British Open was a U. S. monopoly from 1924 to 1934. Last week Gene Sarazen, who won in 1932, borrowed "the brazen serpent," 35-year-old gun-metal putter which Britain's Allan Graham used when he beat Bobby Jones in 1921. Needing 69 to tie, he got 73 on his last round, finished in a tie for fourth place...
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...three are nationally famous athletes and definite prospects for next summer's Olympic team. Torrance, elephantine Louisiana State shot-putter, holds the present indoor and outdoor world's record for the 16-pound shot, and Hornbostel, now a student in the Harvard Business School, competed in the 1932 Olympic games in the half-mile. Sears won the Billings Two-Mile event in the B.A.A. Games at the Boston Garden last Saturday night, and is a well-known competitor in the longer distances...