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Most sentimental and (next to the Open) toughest U. S. golf tournament is the Masters', played on Bobby Jones's "dream course" in Augusta, Ga. Most golfers hope that Bobby Jones, now 37, paunchy and a 40-to-1 shot, may still win this tournament. As the sixth annual Masters' began last week, favorites were Open Champion Ralph Guldahl, Hillbilly Sam Snead and lanky Henry Picard, last year's winner...
Bobby Jones cracked his drives as lustily and hit his irons as crisply as ever. But when a golfer competes in only one tournament a year, as Jones does now, the shots that count are made on the putting green. Jones began to miss easy putts, finished with a 76 that put him out of the running...
...money players stayed in the money. Finishing with a smoking 68 Sam Snead broke the tournament record by two strokes with 280, seemed the winner. Ralph Guldahl started the last nine needing a 33, three under par, to beat him. He got a birdie, two pars. Then he hit a weak, 22O-yd. drive on the 480-yd. 13th and his jig seemed to be up. His ball was in a downhill lie; yawning in front of the green 260 yards away was a deep, water-filled ravine. Without hesitation Guldahl took a spoon instead of a safe iron, swung...
...Sunday morning a lacrosse unit, 17 strong, will take the road enroute for extremely of Pennsylvania, Maryland and the Navy. First to move into action will be Coach Rene Percy's fencers, who are competing in the Intercollegiate Fencing association's forty-sixth annual individual and team championship tournament today and tomorrow, in New York City's 17th Regimental Armory...
Twelve colleges will be represented in the duelling fiesta, will Navy in the favorite's role ahead of defending champion N. Y. U., Rene Peroy's well-balanced Crimson nine man squad, and the Army swordsmen. The tournament promises to be packed with thrills with three now champions to be crowned and four topnotch universities battling it out for team honors. The absence through graduation of most of last year's men virtually throws the two-day affair into three wide-open races...