Word: sam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first contact work of the week, there were several temporary switches necessitated by Saturday's injuries. On offense, Sam Butler and Duke Sedgewick replaced Howie Houston and Chief Bender; on defense, Dick Guidera, John Coan, and Bill Rosenau plugged the middle of the line instead of Houston, Bender, and Butler...
Over fog-shrouded Ganton course, the aroused British gave the heavily favored Americans a jolt. In Scotch-foursome play (where partners alternate hitting the same ball), a pair of 41-year-old Englishmen nosed out the cream of U.S. golfers-Sam Snead and Lloyd Mangrum-and won, one up. At the end of the first day's play, Britain led, three matches...
...needed all the vitamins they had brought along, and something else besides, to get back in front on the next day. Snead had to fire a snappy 68 to stay abreast of Britain's little Charlie Ward for the first 18 holes; Sam finally won, 6 and 5. But the best match of all was the last and deciding one, between Mangrum and Fred Daly. Said Mangrum after 18 holes: "This Irishman is tough; I had a 65 and I'm only one up." After lunch, Mangrum fell one hole behind before the pace told on Daly...
...Sam's brother had become such a good preacher in America that his father decided to send Sam, too. He studied at Dwight L. Moody's Mount Hermon School in Massachusetts, spent two years on a scholarship at Amherst, and earned his B.A. at Princeton. Finally, in 1903, he set sail for India. A year later, in Bombay, he married Ethelind Cody, a cousin of Buffalo Bill...
...while in the U.S. on furlough, Sam Higginbottom decided that he could best help India after making a serious study of agriculture. Three years later, armed with a degree in agriculture from Ohio State University, he returned to teach the Indians how to farm...