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...sank 30-ft. putts, took the lead with another sub-par 70. But on the third day the winds came. Cotton had counted on St. Andrews' unpredictable gales to confound the four visiting Americans. But Cotton's own game was confounded too. The winds troubled Sammy Snead, the Virginia hillbilly with a reliable swing and an unreliable temperament; his powerful drives were swooped up by gusts and landed in the rough. When somebody told him the same thing was happening to everybody else, unpredictable Sammy Snead finally settled down to steady, safe playing. It won him his first...
...finished first was not Nelson, nor either of golf's other two big names-Sam Snead and Ben Hogan-but a new young master from Springfield, Mo. named Herman Reiser. A year ago 31-year-old Golfer Reiser was a storekeeper on the cruiser Cincinnati. He started in front and stayed there until he canned the last putt for a six-under...
...down with flu, gobbled some sulfa pills, decided to play anyhow. Despite a 102° fever, he fired a 68 to tie for the first-round lead in the $10.000 Dallas Open. But next day, woozy from sulfa, he slumped to 74. After that he could not catch Sam Snead (lately recovered from a broken arm), Jug Mc-Spaden or Byron Nelson. Hogan finished fourth with a 3-under-par. In the longer run he was a good bet to succeed wartime golf's king of the links, fast-greying Byron Nelson, now 18 Ibs. underweight after the nerve...
Nelson, who can play championship golf with an ax handle when he's hot, came to life next day in the match play battle at New Jersey's Essex County course. He sank a 35-footer, outdrove hard-slamming Sambo. Snead's putting meanwhile went from poor to punk, ended in a nose dive on the water-soaked greens. Nelson, six-up at the 13th, closed it out at the 33rd with the score four-and-three. That left the unofficial championship just about where it was in the first place. With a win apiece, Nelson...
...Snead drew his biggest cheer when he nonchalantly selected a No. 5 iron, blasted out of a trap with a 175-yd. carry dead...