Word: urzetta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stranahan's opponent in the final round was a 24-year-old Italian immigrant's son named Salvatore ("Sam") Urzetta. Sam had achieved a small measure of fame as a basketball player with St. Bonaventure last year; he was the U.S. free-throw champion. As a golfer, Sam was also pretty good around his home town of Rochester, N.Y. He had won the New York State Amateur Championship in 1948, and last year, when the U.S. Amateur was played in Rochester, he gained the third round before an admiring flock of locals. But nationally, he was a nonentity...