Word: hogan
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Rutgers' varsity eight: the second annual Dad Vail Regatta, No. 1 rowing event for minor-league college crews; outrowing eight other eights over the Henley distance (one mile and five-sixteenths); on the Connecticut River at Springfield, Mass. Marietta finished second, Springfield third. ∧Long-swatting little Ben Hogan of Fort Worth, Tex.: the third annual Goodall Round Robin golf tournament-in which each of 15 invited pros scores plus one for every hole he wins, minus one for every hole he loses to each of the other 14 with a score of plus 23; over Long Island...
...there were four co-favorites in the field of 59: stoic Byron Nelson, U. S. Open champion; stolid Ralph Guldahl, two-time (1937-38) U. S. Open champion; happy-go-lucky Jimmy Demaret, winner of five of the twelve tournaments in the recently concluded winter circuit; and breezy Ben Hogan, winner of the last three winter tournaments with an unprecedented total of 34 under par for 216 holes. The quartet was notable because its members were all Texans-Guldahl a Dallasman, Demaret a Houstonian, Nelson and Hogan onetime fellow caddies at Fort Worth's Glen Garden Club...