Word: urzetta
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...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...
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...