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Washington. Republican Jack Westland, who took time out from campaigning to win the national amateur golf championship (at 47, he is the oldest U.S. amateur champ in history), won the House seat vacated by Democratic Representative Henry ("Scoop") Jackson, who was elected U.S. Senator. When Eisenhower campaigned through Washington, Westland, for "good luck," gave him the putter which sank the winning putt in the national amateur tournament...
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...
This year's National Amateur was to be held at the Seattle Country Club, almost in his own backyard; Westland, now a grey-templed 47, decided to take his eighth crack at it. He had also decided on a crack at politics as a Republican candidate for Congress from Washington's Second District. Instead of practicing putts, he had been out buttonholing supporters and cruising around Everett in a car covered with signs proclaiming: "You Can Trust Jack Westland...
...down in the locker room. At 2 o'clock, before a gallery now grown to some 8,000, Jack and Al teed off again. Some openly doubted that the older man could weather the afternoon round. Al Mengert, though wet-browed under the strain, went one up over Westland on the ninth hole to lead for the first time...
...Westland just went on playing a painstaking, precise game that brought, not applause, but "Gee, gee, gee" from the gallery. Soon he was two up. Then on the 16th hole (468 yds.), Jack sent his second shot into the light rough just off the green; Mengert's sailed into a sand trap. Westland arched his approach to within a scant yard of the cup. Mengert exploded out, then overputted the hole. Jack sank his short one. That...