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...tournament, he has been rolling up winnings for twelve weeks; if he bowls a perfect game before the cameras (he has come within one strike twice), Campi stands to win $100,000. Bowling against him at Ft. Worth were such other old pros as Detroit's Buzz Fazio and Steve Nagy, veterans of a quarter-century of bowling...
...remember," said Fazio last week, "when people wouldn't have walked across the street to bowl. I'll bet a plugged nickel to a $5 bill that I can walk down any street in any town and somebody'll recognize me. Even the children are coming into the game...
...another tub. He got no sleep that night. At the club next day he put elastic bandages on his legs and walked purposefully to the practice tee. He hit a couple of balls with each club in his bag. Then he went out and beat Lloyd Mangrum and George Fazio to become U.S. Open champion...
...strokes. Tired and sagging, he could not quite make it. He missed an 18-inch putt on the dogleg 15th. On the 17th he lost another stroke by trapping his tee shot, settled for a three-way tie with Mangrum and Washington, D.C. Pro George Fazio...
...with that hurdle past, there was no stopping little Ben Hogan in the playoff. Rifling his drives squarely down the fairway, clicking off his approach shots with deadly precision, he held a one-stroke lead over Mangrum at the 16th, three strokes better than Fazio. On the 16th green, Mangrum picked up his ball to blow off a crawling insect. The penalty for violation of the rules cost him two strokes and his last chance to stay in the running. Hogan curled in a clinching 50-foot putt for a birdie on the 17th, wound up with another 69, four...