Word: hogan
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...week the Hamilton Plan was in full swing. Ready to start for camp next week was Captain Fille's company-its personnel upped from 62 to 90, $4,500 in the till to pay the difference between Guardsmen's camp pay and their regular salaries. At Joseph Hogan's private airport, excavation work was under way to turn it into a military field for the civil aeronautics training program. Awaiting only a Government go-ahead signal were 400 unemployed young men to take initial courses in shop and foundry work and advanced technical skills...
...windbag, the little Roman promptly named his challengers: Old-timers Tom my Armour, Harry Cooper, Billie Burke, Craig Wood, Jimmy Thomson, Al Watrous, Lawson Little and Newcomers Jim my Demaret, Ben Hogan, Ed Oliver...
...play's end the first day, it looked sad indeed for Captain Sarazen. Only Demaret & Hogan, the two Texans who have burned up U. S. fairways the past six months, came through with victory in the Scotch foursomes-i up over Sam Snead & Ralph Guldahl. Trailing 1-to-3, the "leftouts" took on their singles assignments with grim determination. Even Captain Sarazen went into the fray. But the best they could do was split the day's matches with the rightful Ryder Cuppers, to lose the two-day battle...
Most golf fans agreed with him. Favorites among the 170 cream-of-the-crop golfers who qualified for last week's tournament were: happy-go-lucky Jimmy Demaret (winner of half the tournaments on the winter circuit), up-&-coming little Ben Hogan (who finished in the money in 16 tournaments this year), long-swatting Sam Snead, a mechanically perfect golfer, and onetime Open Champions Ralph Guldahl (1937-38) and Byron Nelson (1939)-none of them over 29 years...
...finish just as breath-taking as the one to which he treated his gallery at Skokie 18 years ago, Sarazen chalked up the 34 he needed, tied Lawson Little for the championship with a 72-hole total of 287,-eight strokes better than Sam Snead, three strokes better than Hogan, Guldahl and Nelson...