Word: urzetta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Other big names went down in the scramble. Frank Stranahan, regarded by some as the top U.S. amateur, was beaten by a 39-year-old Sunday golfer. British Amateur Champion Joe Carr was put out; so were Charles Coe and Sam Urzetta, onetime U.S. amateur champs. Two relatively little-known golfers survived to reach the finals: Dale Morey, 32, an Indianapolis salesman who won this year's Western Open; and Gene Littler, 23, a member of this year's Walker Cup team and currently a Navy storekeeper on leave from San Diego...
Apparently he didn't need practice: one day last week Jack Westland found himself in the finals again, after 21 years. In the seven earlier rounds, such former champions as Billy Maxwell (1951), Sam Urzetta (1950) and Charles Coe (1949) had all gone down. Jack's opponent was Spokane's young (23) Al Mengert, who had diligently been reducing his score ever since he got out of the U.S. Air Force last June...
Behind Gagliardi lay Defending Champion Sam Urzetta, 1949 Champion Charley Coe, and National Junior Champ Tommy Jacobs, at 16 the youngest golfer ever to reach the men's semifinals. Walker Cupper Frank Stranahan and 1951 British Amateur Titleholder Dick Chapman had already fallen in earlier rounds. Young Billy Maxwell blasted his way into the last round by knocking off 250-lb. Pittsburgh Realtor Jack Benson...
Defending champion Frank Stranahan and Sam Urzetta led the American Walker Cup team into the third round of the British Amateur golf tournament at Porthcawl, Wales, amid wind and rain...
...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 Cup, for the first time in twelve years, over Princeton, Cornell and Syracuse; at Ithaca...