Word: snead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...specially made for him: "It took me 15 years to figure out the best shaft for me, and I believe I finally have it.'' A better explanation is his own steady game, carefully modeled on the best points of the past masters: the booming woods of Sam Snead, the deadly accurate putts of Harry Cooper, the chip-and-pitch artistry of Johnny Revolta, the long irons of older brother Ray Mangrum...
...Snead, the $15,000 Eastern Open golf championship, with four sub-par rounds (71, 67, 68 and 69), by two strokes over Runner-Up Ed Oliver; at Baltimore. ¶ Auto Driver George Hill, the hot rodders' prize of prizes: International Class C speed record of 229.77 m.p.h. (old record: 219.5 m.p.h.); at Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah. On the outward run over the one-mile course, Hill was clocked at a 235.41 clip. But the abrasive track surface shredded the tires so much that Hill was forced to ease up on the last half-mile of the return trip, timed...
...hole tie, each with a 12-under-par total of 276; at Chicago's Tam O'Shanter Country Club. To Winner Boros went the biggest prize in golf history: $25,000. Other 72-hole leaders: Jim Ferrier and Roberto de Vicenzo, 277; Sam Snead and Dave Douglas, 279; Henry Ransom and Lew Worsham...
...round and you're out-the P.G.A. has long eluded the Turnesa family. In 1927, a year after he lost the U.S. Open by a stroke to Bobby Jones, Joe Turnesa lost in the P.O.A. final to Walter Hagen. In the 1942 final Jim Turnesa lost to Sam Snead. In 1948 Mike Turnesa lost to Ben Hogan. That was the year that Brother Willie, the only amateur in the family, won his second U.S. amateur title to go along with his 1947 British championship...
...Johnny Longden, race No. 4,000, to put him numerically head & shoulders over the rest of the U.S. jockeys; at California's Hollywood Park. In the race for the longest winning record, Longden, 42, was still (426) behind England's 47-year-old Gordon Richards. ¶ Sam Snead, the Palm Beach golf tournament, by two points over Gary Middlecoff; at New Rochelle...