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...Little Poison" is Paul Runyan, who learned his golf in Hot Springs, Ark., teaches it at White Plains's Metropolis Club and never ceases to concentrate on it in tournament play. Ever since 1934, when he defeated his onetime boss, slugging Craig Wood, in the final of the P. G. A. championship and went on to become the No. 1 pro that year, Paul Runyan has made a specialty of killing off golfing titans with his deadly potions of accuracy and control...
Signing Off's underworld heroes, case-hardened but paunchy, resemble the sporting characters of Damon Runyan. wry, picturesque, sentimental. Author McIntyre's technique is to interrupt fits & starts of tough talk with fits & starts of windy anxiety over (in this case) the Roman Catholic Church...
...RUNYAN...
...have been White House Secretary Stephen Early, Mississippi's Senator Pat Harrison, Ohio's onetime Governor James Middleton Cox and Editor Merle Thorpe of Nation's Business. At the Miami-Biltmore course the vacationing losers plotted to hoax the winner. To Golfer Pelley they introduced Paul Runyan, onetime Professional Golfers Association champion, as "Mr. Paul, a young businessman from Muncie, Ind., with a handicap of eight." In the morning round Golfer "Paul" hooked his drives into the rough, flubbed his putts, shot occasional approaches ably enough to make a 75, win. Golfer Pelley magnanimously congratulated his opponent...
Walter Hagen, five times winner, failed to qualify. Tony Manero, U. S. Open champion, played 123 holes three under par and groaned about his putting. One-time Champions Tommy Armour, Paul Runyan and Gene Sarazen were all put out the same morning and the defending champion, Johnny Revolta, was beaten in the afternoon. Jimmy Thomson, famed as the 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...