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CORAL Gables, Fla.--Sam Snead and Ralph Guldahl, blazing home with a record-smashing blast, today won the International Four-Ball Championship, one of golf's severest tournament tests, and the $2000 top prize...
...opening tournament at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. only 80 competitors turned up-possibly because White Sulphur is the home course of Sam Snead, sensational 25-year-old pro who in his second year of big-time golf has been a bugaboo to his confreres. Up to last week he had earned the astounding sum of $17,572 in tournament competition this year-$10,000 more than second-running Johnny Revolta and $2,000 more than the all-time record set by Horton Smith...
...Snead's colleagues feared that he might be doubly dangerous on his home course, they were exactly right. Except for a momentary lapse when he bungled a piddling putt, he gave his hillbilly neighbors something to chaw over. He took a two-under-par 68 on each of the first two rounds, a 69 on the third and then, after trailing Ky Laffoon by one stroke at the 63rd hole, the pride of White Sulphur Dreezed through the final nine in a whirlwind 32 for a seven-under-par total of 273 -and first prize...
Chattering over their "Sam Snead sundaes" in the village drugstore, natives figured that the youngest of the Snead boys had earned $18,272 this year, was anything but crazy to have taken up golf as a profession...
Died. Harold Snead, 40, chief pilot of the Eastern Region of Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc., who never had an accident flying as a commercial pilot; of heart disease; in Newark...