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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Georgia two hours later. For two days April rains hampered Ike's golfing, but at last the sun came out and the President was able to play with a new partner: Lumber Salesman Billy Jo Patton, the sensational amateur from Morgantown, N.C., who finished third, right behind Sam Snead and Ben Hogan, in the recent Masters Tournament. Patton returned to Augusta after the Masters' especially to meet Ike. and together they trounced their opponents, Club Chairman Cliff Roberts and Columbus, Ga. Broker William Zimmerman. Ike carded a respectable 88 and Billy Jo had a sensational 68, including five...
...Downs. Since then, U.S. road racing has had its ups & downs. In 1950, Sam Collier, a close friend of Cunningham and one of the original Sports Car Club enthusiasts, was killed in a Ferrari in the Watkins Glen Race. Two years later a skidding Cadillac-Allard killed a youngster who was watching from a Watkins Glen sidewalk. The same year, a driver was killed at Bridgehampton. Again there was a public hue & cry, an echo of the Vanderbilt Cup days, and road racing was on its uppers...
Freshman Heavies: Carlo Zezza, Stroke; John Lapsley, 7; Ed McCagg (captain), 6; Stafford Morss, 5; Carter Harrison, 4; Art Hodges, 3; Fritz Schwarz, 2; Sam Wolcott, Bow; Bob McLaughlin...
...defense kept the visitors scoreless till well into the third period when Sam Stowell passed goalie John Ogden, Steve Den Hartog turned in the first half shutout and sparked the clearing. Fred Scharf was back in action after separating his shoulder on the Spring trip. Tom Crump, John Hartwell, Pat Esmiol, Paul Jones, and Scharf all played solid, dependable defense. It was the first time since 1952 that Munro has had more than three top flight defensemen in playing condition...
Next day, in the playoff, Hogan, the Mechanical Man, blew a piddling, three-foot putt on the 16th. He never recovered. For the third time, by a margin of one stroke in 90 holes, Sam Snead was Master of the Masters...