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Whether by design or accident, each one of the seven sons of Vitale Turnesa, onetime day laborer at New York's Fairview Country Club became, in turn, a caddy and then a golfer of note. Today, the Turnesa boys make up golf's royal family. Last week, Vitale's sixth son, Jim, 38, added another jewel to the family crown: the P.O.A. championship...
...Walker Cup teams, a 1940 U.S. amateur title, and a trophy room full of lesser prizes calculated to satisfy the most demanding topnotcher. But not Dick Chapman. In 16 years he has twice reached the final of the British Amateur championship, and lost both times (to Willie Turnesa in 1947, Frank Stranahan in 1950). Last week, Chapman tried again...
...Making Chapman the seventh golfer to win both the U.S. and British amateur titles. The others: Harold Hilton, Walter Travis, Jess Sweetser, Bobby Jones, Lawson Little and Willie Turnesa...
...Walker Cup team, for the twelfth time in 13 tries, over the British, 6-3; at Birkdale, England. Though the British players, in their best showing since their only victory of the series in 1938, managed to upset the three top U.S. players (Captain Willie Turnesa, Frank Stranahan and Charlie Coe) in the final singles, Dick Chapman, Bill Campbell, Sam Urzetta and Jim McHale came through to clinch the cup. ¶ The University of Washington crew, perennial powerhouse of U.S. rowing, the Pacific Coast championship, over California and Stanford; at Seattle. ¶ The Yale crew, the Carnegie...
...years, Erwin S. Barrie has been not only director of Manhattan's big Grand Central Art Galleries but an amateur painter as well. Last week, for the first time, he got around to hanging some of his own paintings on the walls. Onetime Amateur Golf Champion Willie Turnesa turned up at the opening; so did dozens of other tweedy sportsmen who circled the room crowing, "I remember this one!" and "I made that one in three." Amateur Barrie, who called his canvases Famous Golf Holes I Have Played, couldn't have been more pleased at the down...