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...Illinois' Bradley University was as horrified as any of them. Last spring Bradley staged its own private invitation tournament, to make sure that its team, known as the "Pride of Peoria," kept uncontaminated. Last week Peoria's pride came a cropper. Manhattan District Attorney Frank Hogan announced that eight Bradley players, including All-America Gene Melchiorre, had been hand in glove with gamblers. Also involved: four members of Toledo University's team. ¶ For 13 years a group of alleged musicians, calling themselves the Dodger Symphony Band, have tootled happily and horribly around Brooklyn's Ebbets...
...Hogan (Jan. 10, 1949), 1948's golfer of the year and favorite for most top 1949 tournaments, lost the $15,000 Los Angeles Open Tournament during the week of the cover and three weeks later suffered a near-fatal accident in his car. (Hogan's subsequent comeback is one of the great sport stories of the decade...
...were not for nonpareil Ben Hogan, Snead would be the No. I U.S. golfer. His one weakness, which has twice cost him the Open championship, is putting; he tried 18 different putters in 1948. Even so, he has won 73 tournaments since 1937. Last year, leading the money winners for the third time, Snead banked $35,758.83. His P.G.A. victory last week was his third (the others: 1942 and 1949), a mark equaled only by Gene Sarazen and bettered only by the great Walter Hagen. Snead is glum when he loses. Last week he was grinning from...
...Hogan's third Open title in four years.* Almost in tears when a gallery of 10,000 broke into wild cheers as he sank his final 12-foot putt, Hogan relaxed into a victory grin and resorted to superlatives for one of the few times in his career: "The toughest course . . . and the finest round I have ever played...
...year he missed: 1949, when he was recuperating from the car crash that nearly took his life. Hogan still has one Open to go; Bobby Jones won it four times...