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Such a team - Byron Nelson, Henry Picard, Sam Snead, Ralph Guldahl, Horton Smith, Paul Runyan, Dick Metz, Jim my Hines, Harold McSpaden, Vic Ghezzi! "From the boys they overlooked I could pick ten that would beat the pants off that team," sneered Sarazen - with a special glare at his old rival, Walter Hagen, chosen captain for the seventh time...
...when the field's first half had turned in their cards, tied at 156 were 65-year-old onetime Champion Douglas and 59-year-old Archibald M. Brown, classmate of Franklin D. Roosevelt at Groton and Harvard. Mr. Douglas' first-round 73 (eight strokes better than Sam Snead's last-round score in the U. S. Open fortnight ago) equaled the lowest score ever recorded in 35 years of Senior competition...
...halfway mark, when the rain-harried field narrowed down to the 66 lowest scorers, Favorite Sam Snead led the parade along with lanky Horton Smith and bulky Lawson Little - all three tied at 141 for 36 holes. Snead, whose first-round 67 was the lowest opening-round score ever chalked up in the Open, attracted the largest gallery. Maybe this was the year, they figured, that he would outwhammy his famed spotlight jitters...
...hole final, Snead's following thinned out. Word got round that Lawson Little, playing with the same mastery that won the U. S. and British Amateurs in 1934 and 1935, was in the groove...
...stretch finish just as breath-taking as the one to which he treated his gallery at Skokie 18 years ago, Sarazen chalked up the 34 he needed, tied Lawson Little for the championship with a 72-hole total of 287,-eight strokes better than Sam Snead, three strokes better than Hogan, Guldahl and Nelson...