Word: hogan
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Bantam Ben Hogan over the field, for the Professional Golfers' Association award as "Golfer of the Year...
...biggest mistake was made when Arizona's Senator McFarland yelled at him "You do violate the law?" and Erickson blurted "yes" in a startled squeak. Four days later, Manhattan District Attorney Frank Hogan seized all of Erickson's neat records, and the big gambler's financial front man began singing for the D.A. Hogan charged Frank with conspiracy and 59 counts of bookmaking...
...Manhattan's special sessions court this week Gambler Erickson meekly entered a plea of guilty on all counts (maximum penalty on each: $500 fine and one year in jail). But a trial might have been worse. Hogan's men had found that a big chunk of his $100,000-a-year income came from Florida's Colonial Inn, a gambling enterprise he shared with Detroit gamblers, New York Gangsters Meyer Lansky and "Jimmy Blue Eyes" Alo, Brooklyn's Joe Adonis. Erickson would not want to get those fellows into trouble...
...hole Palm Beach Round Robin.* On the final hole, Mangrum had every reason to grin. He saved himself putting troubles by laying his approach shot within nudging distance of the hole, wound up with a winning 16-under-par for the tournament and $3,000. Tired little Ben Hogan, who had squeezed Winner Mangrum out of the U.S. Open playoff the week before, just went through the motions, finished eleventh in a field...
...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...