Word: texans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next a Baltimore delegate, Edward J. Colgan Jr., nominated Millard Tydings interminably, pausing at last to remark doggedly "... I have given you but a partial picture . . ." to a cacophony of heartfelt boos. For Tydings there was but one feeble cheer. Wright Moody, a ponderous grey-haired Texan, nominated John Nance Garner monotonously for what seemed like hours to the sleepy, hot delegates. More boos...
Touring the last 18 holes without once getting into a trap or taking more than two putts on a green, Defending Champion Jennings chalked up 149 and his third U. S. Senior championship. Four strokes behind was Texan John K. Wadley, 63, who set a new tournament record with a 72 on his final round...
...every hole he wins, minus one for every hole he loses to each of the other 14 with a score of plus 23; over Long Island's Fresh Meadow links. To Winner Hogan went $1,000, upping his 1940 tournament earnings to $7,538 only $239 behind Fellow Texan Jimmy Demaret, this year's leading money winner, who scored minus eleven in last week's tournament...
Last week, 23-year-old Lew Jenkins-thanks to his go-getting manager, Hymie Caplin-found himself in Madison Square Garden, challenging Lou Ambers for the world's lightweight championship. To the crowd of 14,000, the scrawny, wild-haired Texan looked more like a Broadway panhandler than a challenger for Pugilism's next-to-most-important title. Ringsiders gave him no more than a 3-to-1 chance against skillful, durable, ring-wise Lou Ambers...
...Still another Texan is Betty Jameson, U. S. women's golf champion...