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...York cops knew by the head lines that Gambler Frank Erickson was coming - and they baked him a cake. Four days after the pudgy-faced bookmaker told a Senate committee that he was earn ing $100,000 a year from the rackets, Manhattan's District Attorney Frank S. Hogan raided Erickson's oak-paneled Park Avenue office suite. Armed with a warrant, the D.A.'s men spent a leisurely day riffling through the files, trucked away five drawers and three cartons full of canceled checks, stubs, diaries and receipts dating back 14 years...
...whole procedure was "cutting the Constitution right through the middle," sputtered Erickson's attorney. To which Judge John A. Mullen replied: "Anyone who publicly proclaims himself to be in the bookmaking business must expect to have his records examined." District Attorney Hogan confidently made a date with the grand jury...
Bantam Ben Hogan had played good golf since his comeback last winter (TIME, Jan. 16), but he had yet to win a tournament. In the Greenbrier open tournament at White Sulphur Springs, W.Va. this week, he made up for all that. Ben's winning score: a 21-under-par 259 for 72 holes, tying the alltime world record for play on a par-70 regulation course. Said Ben: "I'm picking up where I left...
...fourth round, on Easter Sunday, Demaret was sartorially splendid in a tasty chartreuse combination, but. after an appreciative glance at Jimmy, the biggest crowd took off after early starter Hogan. It was not to be Ben's day; he closed witha miserable (for him) 76. Jimmy Demaret ended with a snappy 69, helped by a birdie on his favorite 13th. Then, pretty sure of second money, he waited for Ferrier to finish...
...three strokes. Instead, his trusty putter began to vibrate under the tension, shook him into misses for a costly 75. Demaret backed into the title by two strokes. His winning score for 72 holes: a five-under-par 283. The runners-up: Ferrier (285), Snead (287), and Hogan and Texas' Byron Nelson (288 apiece...