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...Officer Father was stationed. He beat an unemployed carpenter in the final of the British Amateur at Prestwick last spring (TIME, June 4). Last week in Brookline Golfer Little had, as usual, been driving the ball 250 to 260 yd. Among other able opponents, he had beaten young Willie Turnesa, who had eliminated the defending champion, George Terry Dunlap...
...world to win, for which British & U. S. Open Champion Gene Sarazen failed to qualify three weeks ago. Ponderous Olin Dutra who looks like Jack Dempsey and handles his putter like an elephant with a teaspoon, won the medal with 140. His brother Mortie, Johnny Farrell, Mike Turnesa, Abe Espinosa, Walter Kozak, Tommy Armour and last year's Open champion, Billy Burke, were all over the play-off score?153. The first round was memorable for two tremendous matches which passed the record set when Chick Evans won the 1920 U. S. Amateur in 40 holes...
...places in the New York District. His putting was wobbly, his irons erratic. His 152, eight over par for two rounds, left him tied with six other professionals for the last two places in the 14. In a "sudden death" playoff, John Golden and two Turnesa brothers won the last three places with birdie threes on the first hole. Sarazen's birdie three on the third hole came too late to put him in the list of qualifiers unless one of them, possibly Charley Lacey, his assistant at Lakeville Country Club, withdraws before the tournament begins next fortnight...
...Broad-shouldered, lackadaisical Wilfred ("Wiffy") Cox: his first important golf tournament, the North & South open, at Pinehurst, after a nine-hole play-off against Joe Turnesa...
...Paul Runyan, 21, assistant professional at the Forest Hill Club, Bloomfield, N. J.: the North & South Open at Pinehurst, N. C., beating Horton Smith, Tommy Armour, Johnny Farrell, Joe Turnesa...