Word: ward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Improving steadily after his first-round scare, Ward came up against Booe in the semifinals and took his measure. In the finals, against Bill Hyndman, 39, a Pennsylvania insurance executive who won the Philadelphia Amateur 20 years ago, Ward could do no wrong...
Blistered Feet. Son of a Tarboro, N.C. druggist, Ward started to play seriously at 13, when he found a rusting, hickory-shafted putter in an abandoned locker. In 1949, as a University of North Carolina undergraduate, he won the intercollegiate championship; in 1952 he beat Toledo's Frank Stranahan for the British amateur championship. Always he used the same old putter, had it reshafted three times...
Hyndman, soft from long hours back of a desk, tramped the fairways with badly blistered feet. He was playing his same steady game, but it was not enough. To make matters worse, Ward was getting the breaks. On the sixth, he overshot the green, saw his ball bounce off a movie sound truck and fall safe. After an "approximate" 66 on the first round (he did not actually hole out at several greens), he breezed into the home stretch. Hyndman hung on, won his only hole of the day (with a 75-ft. putt), then halved five...
Unlike most of his predecessors, he is expected to defend his title next year. Said Ward, as he received the winner's trophy: "I will never turn...
Montgomery Ward Chairman John Barr last week reported the cost of the proxy fight to repel Raider Louis Wolfson. The bill: $692,250. The cost of the fight, plus a change in the method of computing the corporation's tax caused by a tax law change, cut the company's net for the first six months to $11,771,690, a 5% drop under 1954, despite a $22 million rise in sales. But Barr also had some good news. The company plans to open 100 new catalogue-order offices by the end of next year, the first sizable...