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Sixteen years ago, a young (26), up & coming golf pro named Sam Snead defeated Old Pro Gene Sarazen in the first Goodall Round Robin golf tournament. Snead, a prodigious hitter, beat the old pro in a tight play-off for the title. Last week, on Long Island's Meadowbrook course, Snead, now an old pro himself, made certain that no young upstarts got within hailing distance...
...fourth round Sam applied the crusher: a blazing 66 against 1953's Amateur Champion Gene Littler, Ted Kroll and Ed Oliver. The crusher gave Snead an insurmountable lead: 52 points to 18 for Runners-Up Gary Middlecoff, defending champion, and Jack Burke. On the final round, instead of relaxing, Snead shot a 65, lowest round of the tournament, and won by the biggest margin in the 16-year history of the Round Robin, beating Runner-Up Toski by 36 points...
This week Sam went to have a long, hard look at New Jersey's Baltusrol course, scene of next month's Open Championship. The Open is the one major golf tournament the "Sweet Swinger" has never...
...friend of H. L. Hunt. He is Senator McCarthy's patron saint in Texas, has contributed to McCarthy's campaigns and right-wing Republican causes. Cullen has also contributed much to Houston, has put aside an estimated $160 million for colleges, hospitals and charitable organizations. ¶Sam Wilson, 49, of Corpus Christi, is a wildcatter described as a "Glenn McCarthy who managed to hold onto it." With part of his oil wealth, Horse Lover Wilson built a huge office building in his home town, topped it with a giant revolving neon W in his racing colors...
Yale captured five events and tied for first in another, including Thomson's wins in the hammer throw, shot put, and discus. His toss of 180-feet-four-inches in the hammer broke the Heptagonal record of 178-5 1/4 set by the Crimson's Sam Felton in 1948, and the Soldiers Field record of 180 1/4 set by Felton in the same year...