Word: nelson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hershey, Pa. three weeks ago, U. S. Open Golf Champion Byron Nelson shot a 287 in the Hershey Open, collected $450 fourth-place money. A $450 check for four days on the golf links is no cause for a sneeze-even by a national champion. But Golfer Nelson was not pleased. And with good reason: his caddy's failure to. find a tee shot that had plopped into the rough in the final round had cost him two strokes, thereby done him out of the second-place prize...
Last week, when he had just about forgotten the galling incident, Golfer Nelson received an anonymous letter: "On September 3, during the golf tournament at Hershey . . . a lady in our party, one of my guests, unwittingly picked up your ball. She knows nothing about the game and did not realize what a lost ball means to a player. I did not learn about it until it-was too late. . . ." As he turned the page, three blue papers fluttered to the floor. They were three $100 money orders...
...could have knocked me over with a wooden tee," chuckled Golfer Nelson...
...NELSON Gering...
...until Admiral Nelson won it for Great Britain 134 years ago, no power ruled over the Mediterranean unchallenged. The Romans and the Carthaginians, Genoa and Naples, the pirates of Tripoli, the Crusaders and the Turks, again and again the East fought the West in its waters, the North fought the South, the powers of Africa and Asia fought the powers of Europe, societies, civilizations, monarchs, rose or fell with the fate of their fleets on the tumultuous...