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There was a gentle sea breeze off the ocean, the sun was warm, and 6,834 open-shirted fans had paid to see the first round of the $10,000 Los Angeles Open. Shortly after noon, Ellsworth Vines shambled to the tee and drove off. It was a 250-yd. drive-but out-of-bounds. He tried again; his second ball went out. He was hooking badly. He tipped his cap to Jim Turnesa, who with Sam Snead made up the threesome. Drawled Vines: "Try it, Jim. Think I'll rest a while." A few minutes later, Vines...
...semifinals, Mary was matched against the great Mildred ("Babe") Didrickson Zaharias. Babe's tee shots boomed down the fairways about 80 yards farther than Mary's. Mary's unorthodox swing, which her father, a golfing dentist, refuses to correct, looked pitifully inadequate. But the closer she got to the green, the deadlier her game became. The best stick in her bag was a battered 15-year-old putter, with which she sank two 35-ft. putts. Babe fell two holes behind in the first three and could not catch up. Exit the Babe...
...first tee of Chicago's Tarn O'Shanter Country Club, golfers stood around with sour looks on their faces and red numbers on the backs of their pants. A loudspeaker blared to the grandstand: "The next hitter, from Hollywood, California, the man who plays Joe Palooka in the movies-Joe Kirkwood Junior!" Elsewhere on the course, a "Masked Marvel," a man in kilts and Joe Louis were going their rounds. This was Chicago Promoter George S. May's idea of a golf tournament. It was in violent conflict with most golfers' ideas, yet the top pros...
...York City's Bronx Zoo, Superintendent Quentin Schubert and Executive Secretary John Tee-Van pondered the problem of how to weigh Pete, a 43-year-old hippopotamus. Scales were obviously out of the question. Suddenly they remembered Archimedes...
...weather was familiar to Britain's Burton: raw, grey and windy. But that didn't make up for five golfless years in the R.A.F. ground force. When his tee shots were straight and true, his putter was erratic. At the end of 18 holes he was six down. Scores: Nelson 71, Burton...