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OKLAHOMA CITY TIMES
SATURDAY, JUNE IS. 1954—SEVEN
State Team in Finals
Junior Doubles
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Littler to Get
Past Yanks, White Sox
His Links Exam
homers for the Buffs. Hisel Pat-
hiti in blanking them in the seven
on the other.
Buckley Boys Beaten
The Texaa duo rallied for an up-
Shawnee waa stopped 2-1 by,
Littler won the amateur title at Oklahoma City last September
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going back to Cuba to get mar-
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sion over Gonsalves in 10 rounds
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played Saturday, although no time
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Boothe of Chickasha will meet Bar
Littler, however, has been hailed
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son, the No. 1 challenger.
Tulsan is Winner of Junior Golf Crown
slated to meet Carol Cummings of Star game in Cleveland July 13.
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NEWSPAPER NATIONAL
SNAPSHOT AWARDS
How the Indians
Hit and Pitch
Texas League
Pennant Race
Lopat Starting Against Chicago
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Cleveland Waltzing
"Minnie" Minoso, Chica
Sox leftfielder, Saturday
Archie Moore, recognized as the
175 pound champ everywhere else,
had his title in Pennsylvania de-
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nipped Ronnie Merrifield, also
of Ponca City, 1 up on the 20th
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va.
Meantime, the Indians were
beating Boston, 2-0 to take a
four-game edge oer both the Sox
and Yanks for the American
league lead.
Sox partisans were wondering
CHICAGO, June 19-I-The
way Casey Stengel sees it, the
New York Yankees and the Ch-i-
cago White Sox are going to
"keep heatin’ each others brains
out" this week end while the
Cleveland Indians waits away
from both of them.
The Yankee manager made
second game, Frank Kellert blast-
ed a bases-loaded homer in the
the tournament, first ever spon-
sored by the Oklahoma Golf as-
sociation. State president Dee
Replogle, who presented the tro-
phies Friday, will announce the
site of the 1*55 tournament some-
time next week. i
Gardner, winner of last week's
Oklahoma City Junior, held a
2 up lead after five boles but :
Hall took the next two and was
never behind the rest of the way. 1
The match was even after 10
holes, but Hall took the next
three in a row
Each shot a 31 on the outgoing
nine but Hall gained a stroke
coming in, to finish with a 75 to
Mfthadit
son Treat.
ball poll.
Minoso’s total reached 27,908 in
fourth and held it. Joe Szekely
homered for the Oilers.
Fort Worth won the first game
against Shreveport on a two-run
triple by Danny Ozark in the first
and a three-run homer by Glen
Artesia Still Ahead
ARTESIA, N. M., June 19—-
Artesia was still one stop ahead
of Roswell in the Longhorn league
race Saturday. Big Spring beat Ar-
tesia 13-11 Friday night.
Cats with a solo homer as the
leadoff batter in the 11th.
Tonight's Schedule— Oklahoma
City at Houston, Tulsa at San An-
tonio Dallas at Beaumont (2),
and Fort Worth at Shreveport.
m.-HaSn R"capttel Bomb
haplatn Center FWw* v. Capt-
The Ardmore Cardinals won a
see-saw battle from Pauls Valley
74.
Wichita Falla in the women's semi-
finals and la paired against cityan
Jane Ellingson in the girls’ singles
finals—although the latter match
probably won't be played until Sun-
day.
Also on the afternoon card are
the semifinals in veterans' singles.
and face the folks," he com-
plained.
Art Hall of Tulsa took home the
championship trophy defeating
Oklahoma City Jim Gardner,
lup. in Friday's finals. Gardner
rallied from a three hole deficit
to win the 15th. 16th and 17th
holes but lost the mach when a
5-fooer failed to drop on he last
Norman Camp pitched a throe-
hitter for Tulsa in the abbrevi-
sted opener against tan An
Joe Macko solo homered In the
ties in other brackets
Semifinals Are Carded
The Texaa sectional champ is
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PHILADELPHIA, June 19—- tional Boxing club didn't announce
Pennsylvania Saturday waa shop-any, attendance figures but there
ping for a new light-heavyweightcouldn’t have been more than 1,500
champion people.
igo White
incre
Judy Mills, talented voung las-
sie from Chickasha, is shoot-
ing for three titles in the State
Open tennis tourney here. She
has reached the semifinals in
women’s singles and plays
Carol Cummings of Wichita
Falls, Texas, Saturday. Miss
Mills also has reached the
title round In girls’ singles and
doubles.
set victory over second-rated Daw-
son and Pete Byrd of Ardmore.
24, 6-2, 6-1.
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showed it when be was the only
player in the 1954 Open to break
Baltusrol’s tough 34-36-70 par for
two rounds. He did it with an even
70 the first day and a superlatively
running in front—and who plays
every shot as if his livelihood de-
pended on it.
A dozen other players were with-
in striking distance. Two former
champions—Lloyd Mangrum and
Gary Middlecoff—and two brash,
skilled young pros—Dick Mayer
and Al Mengert— were only four
strokes behind at 143.
146s. Any one of these could pick
up six or seven strokes on Littler
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By HUGH FULLERTON JR.
SPRINGFIELD, N. J., June 19—IP— Not since Bobby Jones'
"grand slam" year of 1990 has one player been able to win both
the Open and Amateur golf championships of the United States within
the span of less than a year
Gene Littler could be the next one to do it and Saturday will
tell whether the trim, silent Californian has the stuff that makes a
1e.
soldier who will enroll st Kansas
U in the autumn, Tom Courtney
of Fordham; Gene Maynard of
illinois; Lang Stanley of Fresno
State; Baggie Pearman of New
York Pioneer club, and Michael
Stanley of the New York Athletic
the statement before Ms club
beat the lox 74 Friday night.
Minoso Far Ahead
In All-Star Voting
CHICAGO, June 19-iit—Orestes
They will meet at 2 p.m. Satur-
day in one semifinal match. The
other, set for the same time, will
pit second - ranked Bill Danner
against the winner of a morning
match between Arnold Short and
fourth-seeded Lieut. Gil Bogley of
Fort Sill.
Short turned in a 9-7, 5-7, 6-3 win
over Rick Green, well-regarded
Tulsan, in Friday’s action. Bogley
advanced with one easy first round
victory and a default.
It Was a Long Match
By ROSSGOODNER
fnmes Sports Writer)
PONCC CITY, June 19— Reland
Goldsmith of Duncan wore a
pleased but embarrassed look
when awarded the B flight trophy
at conclusion of the State Junior
golf tournament here Friday.
Goldsmith, who usually shoots
in the low 80s, figured himself
a cinch to qualify for A flight
with a possibility of making
championship. However, be stag-
gered in with a 13 in Tuesday s
had to play almoat all afternoon
to subdue Don and Barry Wal-
reen, 6-4, 19-17, in the quarter-
hnals.
The junior bracket, too, waa load-
ed with overtime matches.
la singles, Roger Swanner of
Wichita Falls, Texas, edged past
fourth-ranked citysn Pst Buckley,
8-4, 34. 14
Ramming Trips Brown
Favored Ron Ramming of Law-
ton stopped Henry Browne, 81,
6 2 and third-ranked Win Dawson
of Shawnee outstroked Texan Dan
Hinkle of Denton, 6-3, 8-2.
Ramming waa matched against
Swanner, and Dawson against Jim
Jackson of Chickasha in the semi-
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moved closer to the trophy round. The tennis classic is being played
on the Oklahoma Tennis club courts, M and N Portland.
Gene Land of Oklahoma City and Lieut. Darrell Winrich of Fort
Sill, seeded first and third, respectively, had togo all out for victories
which boosted them into Saturday's semifinals.
Land came from behind in both sets to squeak paat Harlowe
Binning, 74, 74. Winrich stood off set point five times in the opening
stanza and went on to nip George Counts, M, 64. ______________
two runs — two on a sixth-in
ning single that gave the Yanks
a 54 lead and two more on an
Gets Tighter
(y Unitea Prew)
The Texaa league race got more
steady 69 Friday.
Snead a Disappointment
Patton had a 69 Thursday to
lead the first round. Paul McGuire,
an obscure young pro from Wichi-
ta. Kan., matched it early Friday
and Chapman, the veteran ama-
teur, fired the lowest round of the
tournament—a 67. Friday.
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Motorcycle Races
Sunday, June 20
New Va-Mile Track
(Banked » Oied)--50 #. wide
straightway—-40 h. on surves.
Professional riden from 5 sur-
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Time Trials--1100 F. M.
Races Start— 2:00 P. M.
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Gardner's 78. Par for the Ponca
City Country eiub course is 35-
35-70.
Orville Wilks of Ponca City
won the title in a flight Friday
with a 3 and 1 triumph over
John Simmons of Tulsa. Gold-
smith trimmed Doug OrrofOk-
mulgee, 4 and 3, in B Flight,
while Billy Wilks of Ponca City
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Siyals a Brymon Treaters
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going to be on the punching end
of this brain-b eating business
Jameson Meeting
Suggs in Finals
Of Western Open
WAUKEGAN, III., June 19—
(—Affable Betty Jameson, the
silver-haired veteran from San
Antonio, hopes Saturday she
has shaken thee runnerup golf
hex.
The 37-year-old campaigner,
who won her first major title
20 years ago, has finished sec-
ond in three of her last four
tournaments
Saturday she has a chance to
win her first crown of the year,
meeting Louise Suggs, petite
29-year-old Atlantan, in the 36-
hole showdown for the Women s
Western Open. The winner will
get $1,000. The runnerup gets
*500
Louise, who has won five
tourneys this season, tops the
women's money parade with
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DANCING—BUT NOT IN DELIGHT—-Cary Middlecoff, Memphis,
Tenn., pro golfer, does a jig on the tenth green Friday after he
missed a long putt during second-round play in the United States
Open golf championship tournament in Springfield, N. J. Middle-
coff scored a 71 today, which gave him a 72-71—143 for the two
days He waa four strokes behind Gene Littler, Palm Springs,
Calif., who was leading with a 139 for the 36 holes.
Another Jones or Hogan
sial haa been named on 25,112 bal-
lots.
The voting will determine 11
starters for the 21st annual All-
Fort Worth broke Shreveport’s
nine-game winning streak that had
catapulted the Sports to the league
lead by winning two games, 54,
and 4-3 in 11 innings and Tulsa
dipped second-place San Antonio
twice, 24 and 114.
Houston and Oklahoma split a
pair, the Buffs winning the opener,
74, and the Indiana grabbing the
nightcap, 54, while Beaumont sent
Dallas down to its sixth straight
lose in a single game, 44.
O a 11 a a got five-hit pitching
from a dependable hurler- Pat
Scantlebury—but it still wasn't
enough to step the Eagles’ slide.
Russ Burns’ two-run double in
the sixth overcame a 21 Houston
SIGN HIRRi Max Ewing, standing, shows three Lake Hefner golfers how and where to sign for
their entry into the handicap tournament which will begin there next weekend. Lett to right the
players are: Duke Evans, Jim Miskovsky and Lewis Van Wald. The handicap event at Hefner ia
part at the citywide tournament which will start at every course in town next Saturday. Entry
fee ia *1 per player. The aeries of tournaments is being sponsored by the Oklahoma City Amateur
Golfers association Players will sign up for the event at the vsrious courses this weekend
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The Open-Amateur “double" is
about the toughest golf combina-
tion to put together Jones did it
within three months in 1990 after
winning the 1925 amateur and the
1926 open about 1* months apart.
It took Johnny Goodman four
eighth-inning homer.
Grim, former marine, thus
won his seventh game againat
three losses with the third and
fourth hits of his entire major
league career.
But before all this, Stengel was
bemoaning the situation which
In another great match involving front runners, Shreveport and San
favorites, the second-seeded dou- Antonio, took double lickings,
bles team of Winrich and Bogley
. years after his 1933 Open victory
ased to take the Amateur title and Law-
eon Little, who won the 1934 and
1*9 5 Amateur championships
didn’t win the Open until 1940,
when he was a seasoned pro.
Oklahoma CuFlT J-«.
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Fort Wurth 5 4. Shreveport JI (secon
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confronts both the Sox and
Yanka thia weekend
“It’s kina silly, ain't it?" asked
Casey. "Here we are beatin'
each others brains out snd
what's Al Lopes doing over there
sgainst Boston? Winning his
how-many-is-it straight?
"Nine? and how many has he
lost? Seventeen?
"Well, now, we'vs best them
four times and they’ve beat us
four times. You fellows (the Sox)
hsve beat them five times and
they beat you three times.
"I know they ve lost 17 games
— haven’t they That means the
two of us have had to win more
than half the games those guys
bsve lost doesn't it?
"I’m wondering where we're
going to get some help. Boston
esn't even beat them in their
own park. And if Boston can’t
beat them, who’s goig to do it?
None of the other teams can
do it."
junior doubles trophy going up for game. Frits Marolewski and Don
grabs at 4 p.m. The principal* Blasingame powered second-game
will be Bamming and Jackson on 1-----* == 2—
one side snd Swanner and Hinkle rick stopped the Indians on three
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against Philadelphia’s Harold John-’Saturdy’s start of‛thes7S-mile inTheoematshtwiubevgtssitawont sial has been named “ 25,112 “•
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second inning for Tulsa. In the Jones—or a Ben Hogan—or whether he's just another promising
young golfer.
Bucktoy Boys Beaten inning first game. He also hit a
Ramming and Jackson, seeded two-run homer.
No. 1, needed two long sets to go
paat the local Buckley brothers,
Pat and Billy, 9-7. 114, Friday.
CAlewe’z as uro a
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City Olympian, hopes the defend-
ing champions continue to fare as
well Saturday night when the meet
winds up with 11 more final
events
Mashburn won the 446 last year
with a record 47.1 and qualified
easily for the finale by winning
his heat Friday night breezing
in 47.5. Other heat winners and
their timea were Jim Lea, South-
ern California, 67.4; Lou Jones,
Naw York Pioneer club, 47.6, and
Harold Griffin, Rice, <1. Also
L the eight-man finals field will
be Don Timmerman, California;
Fred Schlereth, Columbia; Den
Morton, Southern Methodist, and
Ralph Fessenden of Illinois
George Rhoden, the Olympic
400-meter champion, did not try
to qualify in the 440 He’ll run
the 230 Saturday night, but didn't
feel he ia in good enough condi-
tion yet to run againat the crack
string of quarter-milers on hand.
The MI promises to be arother
sizzler Saturday night.Thest nine
men qualified: Mal Whitfield, the
world record holder; Henry
Cryer, formerly oi Illinois who
turned to the best time in the
triala with an AAU record 1:51:3;
Ted Whooler, formerly of Iowa;
Billy Tidwell, the Fort Ord, Calif.,
tripper of the year, but Tulsa took
the lead with four runs in the championship at the halfway point wit ha 7069—139.
YOUR Action PHOTOS
> Bobby Locke, Tommy Bolt, Bob
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TOLEDO Ohio, June 19n— Joe NEW YORK, June 19-—Orlan-
m~smu Miceli, the eighth ranking welter- do Zulueta, the clever Cuban light-
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By BOB DELLINGER
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tennia meet here Friday but all escaped unscathed aa the tourney ■
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At least one championship match lead and sent Oklahoma City
ia scheduled Saturday, with the ahead for a win in the second
Three Olympic kings tried for
blue ribbons on Friday's opening
night and only Parry O'Brien, the
world's greatest shot putter, waa
successful as he cracked one of
five meet records with s toss of
58-11%.
Lindy Remigino, who took the
100-yard dash at Helsinki two
yean ago. and Joey Barthel of
Luxembourg, the Olympic 1,500
meter monarch, both failed dis-
mally. Barthel did not finish the
mile as Fred Dwyer survived a
collision 14 yards from the finish
to win in the very satisfactory
time at 4.00.5.
After running second through
the early stages of the race
Barthel tired during the last lap
and pulled off the track in the
final 220 yards.
He admitted afterward he haa
been "studying pretty hard” and
wasn't la “too good shape." Bar-
thel to working on a degree in
sanitary engineering at Harvard.
Remigino ran third in the open-
teg heal of th« 100-yard dash, then
didn't finish among the first four
la the semifinals and waaa’t
even around when the eight final-
ists faced the starter’s gun
Art Bragg. who set a new meet
record with a 64 burst ia the
opening hut, won the 100 ia 9.5
against what veteran Texas coach
Cyde Littlefield described ss “the
best 100-yard daah field I've ever
seen, including the Olympics."
NCAA champion Willie Wil-
Items of Illinois wu second Andy
Stanfield, the Olympic 200-meter
champ, was sixth, but there waa
little apace between him and
Bragg
Of Nw nine events for which
flute were held Friday night,
seven defending champions were
on the premises. Of those seven,
five were winners and the other
two placed second.
. Besides Bragg and O'Brien, oth-
ers who duplicated their victories
fashioned at Dayton, Ohio, last
summer were Jack Davis in the
120-yard high hurdles, Curt Stone
ia the six-mile ran and Josh Cul-
breath in the 440-yard intermedi-
ate hurdles
George Brown, delending brood
jump king, was second s halfinch
beck of the winning effort of
24-10% unfurled by Marquette's
John Bennett, end Martin Engel,
the » hammer throw champ, waa
runnerup to Bob Backus, who top-
pled another record with a fling
of 189-3.
Wu Santee of Kanus, now in
the marines, could not defend his
mile crown, and Buddy Davis, for-
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ret nament, had 144a. Sam Snead and
Am the sensational first-day leader,
31 Billy Joe Patton, had 145a and
22 Jack Burke and Freddie Haas
in addition to Mashburn in the
quarter-mile other Oklahoma en- ,
tries Saturday night include Fred
Eekhotf of Oklahoma AIM and
the New York AC in the three-
■lie run and Neville Price and
Erwin Cook of Oklahoma Uni-
Hogan, who haa won the Open four
S times—coming from behind snd
Top-seeded Ed Overholser meets 6:s w .
Col. James H Drake in one .of Wi
the 2:30 p.m. matches with Cter-^jai^.
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sis p.m.
first inning, his eighteenth round- while be still was in the navy. Now, a civilian and a professional
'for less than six months, he’s showing the wsy in the 72-hole Open
Tommy Warren of Seminole who
held the Hawks to four scattered
hits Bob Wooten pitched five-hit
ball for the Hawks.
Third place Lawton, the loop's
fastest riling club, trounced
Gainesville, *•!. Bob Gilmore
Enter your beu action
pictures ia the
OKLAHOMAN a TIMES
snapshot contest
Im "reozip Soctlen
(By The Amsoctated Pres
The McAlester Rockets, fighting
for a berth in the Sooner State
league'a first division, pulled into
s tie for fourth place with Ada Fri-
day night by trouncing the Here-
fords, 94.
Meanwhile, both first place
Shawnee and second place Gaines-
ville test.
with eyes glued on the spring-
legged trojan.
Going into Saturday’s final 36
holes, with juat 50 playera left
out or nearly 2,000 who originally
entered the 162 who started play
here Thursday, Littler had a two-
stroke margin over defending
champion Ben Hogan and lame-
armed Ed Furgol, tied at 141.
Field Closely Bunched
That margin means little when
you're up against a player like
hole for top honors in C Flight. Sdecndivenkcds-zMap
A field of 51 waa entered in gin.
the latest tabulation of returns. He
bara Buckley and Nancy Early of haa an advantage of 2.7*6 votes . aroatost
over his closest pursuer Stan Mu- by the top proa as the greatest
iss been named on 25.112 bal- "comer" to turn up in years. He
Player as
dffn.p . as
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his lead as the highest individual
Girls’ doubles finals also will be vote collector in the All-Star base-
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. NEWPORT, R. I., June 1* O - has been set. Judy Mills and Jane
dared "vacant" Friday by chair A fleet of 77 yachts-largest num- “ ----
man Frank Wiener of the state ath- ber in the history of the Newport
letic commission because Moore to Bermuda race-had the weather-
has failed to defend the crown > man’a promiae of fair weather for
that Caaey waa talking about.
Only twice in nine games with
the New Yorkera have the Sox
come out on top.
Friday night, it was rookie
pitcher Bob Grim who did most
of the damage. He pitched four
innings of relief before hsving to
be rescued by Johnny Sain in
... ..the ninth, when the Sox rallied
Tma"199-9 for two runs. He also knocked in
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Stengel said "hoth the White
Sox and th* Yanks are playing
es good as you could expect
— winning meat of the time."
"Only trouble is," he added,
"that Lopes is winning all the
time."
Stengel prepared to send his
veteran southpaw, Ed Lopat, to
the mound in Saturday's game
with the Sox — second of the cur-
rent four-game aeries. Sx man-
sger Paul Richards chose right-
hander Sandy Consuegra. Each
has won seve nd lost t wo.
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ySapatrdB’or law an
Mar. #5,
g round, s score which
him into B flight
____ a. ,1. his face became redder. Every
‘ntjukalagu one began calling him "trophy
Yon.dtmbea.so. hunter" aa he turned in scores
SaS'2 of • and 4, 6 aad *, etc.
P5.“ mans maj “I‛m almost afraid to go horns
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merly of Texaa AAM, waa ineligi-
ble to try for more high jump
laurate since he's now a profes- l. .....
sional basketball player. aXaX
With Davis not hers, the high
jump title went to Ernie Shelton
of Southern California, who
eleared 6-9% then just missed the
tabled 7-foot mark three timea
as a hushed crowd of 8,000 Mt
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That's quite a fest in itself. Gene—he’s the kind of s kid people
instinctively eali by his first name—- is playing in his tenth tourna-
ment as a professional. He’a up against the long, cruel Baltusrol
course that haa virtually defied the efforts of the world's best golfers
to shatter par for two days.
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ST. (Us, June 19-Defending
meet champions fared better than
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night as the National AAU track
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