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Little Willie Turnesa, only amateur among the seven famed golfing Turnesa brothers, was the first to reach the final. Finishing early, he then helped out his Walker Cup team mate, Dick Chapman, who was having trouble in his semifinal round. Turnesa held an umbrella over Dick's head while he played his short game, and whispered helpful hints in his ear between times. Chapman finally won his match on the 18th green...
...first nine, went five holes ahead. Then Willie won five holes in a row to tie it up. At the 27th Willie went one up. On the next five holes Dick Chapman, playing the best golf of his career, racked up four pars and a birdie; Turnesa matched him stroke for stroke. On the 33rd Chapman faltered, missed a six-foot putt, and Turnesa took the hole. On the 34th, with a chance to stay in the running by halving, Chapman worried over his crucial putt for a full five minutes. Then he missed it. He turned to the crowd...
...National Intercollegiate championships in the first of three attempts at the crown. He was nosed out by Fred Haas of L.S.U., and met'a similar fate at the hands of two more Louisiana players in succeeding years. Barclay side-stepped this jinx long enough to defeat the famous Willie Turnesa in the 1937 event...
...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 got off a third try; it hooked too, but took a lucky bounce off a tree onto the fairway...
...stopped. He calmly outshot ex-Yankee Ballplayer Sam Byrd in the final to pocket the P.G.A.'s first prize, $5,000 in war bonds, and stretch his winning string to a dizzy nine straight tourneys. His victory-starved rivals' future looked darker than ever. Cracked Mike Turnesa: "I was 7 under par. . . . I don't see how anyone can beat...