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Since New Year's Day, smiling, curly-haired John Joseph Burke Jr. has been burning along like a Texas grass fire; he tied Sam Snead and two others for first in the Bing Crosby Invitation, took a third in the Los Angeles Open, won the Rio Grande Valley Open and was up in the money at Long Beach, Phoenix and Tucson. But to pros like Kansas' Dick Metz (who thinks Burke will win the National Open) all this was less impressive than the youngster's background...
...golf course Samuel Jackson Snead, 37, professes to be afraid of three things: lightning, a downhill putt and Ben Hogan. Last week, as he slouched on to the first tee in the playoff of the $15,000 Los Angeles Open, there was' no lightning-just fog and Ben Hogan...
...Snead did not let the gift of one stroke fool him. He stalked down the foggy fairways like a man half expecting an ambush. It took two hours to play the first eight holes. Always a deliberate player, Hogan was taking more time than usual between shots, partly to conserve strength and partly to wear on Sam Snead's notably uncertain nervous system. On the eighth hole with the match even, both men pitched to within twelve feet of the pin to putt for birdies...
...hour and three-quarters later, as he walked off the 18th green with a swollen 76, Ben was four strokes down, and Sam Snead was the winner. Ben Hogan smiled wanly at the crowd and said: "I'm terribly sorry I didn't play better today . . . I hope I'll give you a better show here next year...
...final round, while Middlecoff was floundering, Snead treated himself to a 66. By winning the North and South (by six strokes over Runner-Up Johnny Bulla), Sam Snead boosted his earnings for the year to $32,393. Next best: Middlecoff, with...