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With Fred Waring's noisiest musicians tooting & trumpeting at tee & green, with 5,000 spectators chattering, cheering and rattling the putter, Demaret & Ruth defeated Sarazen & Tunney, 2 & 1. Demaret shot a par 72, Sarazen 73, Ruth and Tunney 82 each. The gallery voted it more fun than a circus...
Cordingley is probably as long off the tee as any collegian in America, outdriving his teammates by 50 yards on the average shot. Graves, kingpin of the New England college linksmen, is much shorter with woods but is a scrambler par excellence. Both he and Cordingley, however, are good iron players who rarely miss a green badly. They will both be three year men, sneaking into the number five and six jobs as Sophomores and working their way to the top as Juniors. A third returning letterman on this year's team is Junior Watty Dickerman, teaming with Don Elbel...
...Hershey Open, collected $450 fourth-place money. A $450 check for four days on the golf links is no cause for a sneeze-even by a national champion. But Golfer Nelson was not pleased. And with good reason: his caddy's failure to. find a tee shot that had plopped into the rough in the final round had cost him two strokes, thereby done him out of the second-place prize...
...could have knocked me over with a wooden tee," chuckled Golfer Nelson...
Meat for cartoonists and jokesmiths is the golfer who killed his caddy. But last week at Philadelphia's Huntingdon Valley Country Club, the thing actually happened. James B. McFarland III cut his drive at the fifth tee into deep rough. He swished his club angrily. It slipped from his hand, smote Caddy John Klemming, 35, in the temple. Klemming died before sundown. "I hope," said James B. McFarland III, "my experience will be a lesson to angry golfers...