First Foursome

Last week golf's bigwigs announced the establishment of a Hall of Fame. Patterned after baseball's Hall of Fame at Cooperstown, N.Y., golf's shrine will stand on a hillock overlooking the Augusta National Golf course at Augusta, Ga. First foursome to be immortalized in bronze: Bobby Jones, Francis Ouimet (pronounced we met), Walter Hagen, Gene Sarazen.

Unlike baseball's Immortals, golf's deities are all still hale & hearty. Last fortnight all four could be seen competing in the Masters Tournament at Augusta. Attorney Jones, 39 (winner of four U.S. Opens, five U.S. Amateurs, three British Opens, one British Amateur), finished 40th in a field of 47. Farmer Gene Sarazen, still going strong after 20 years of big-time golf, turned in 297 (for four rounds), ten strokes better than Jones's card but 17 behind Craig Wood's winning score. Walter Hagen and Francis Ouimet, both nearing 50 and too busy chasing business to bother chasing balls, withdrew after the first round. Ouimet had chalked up 82, Hagen 87, his highest score in nearly 30 years of professional play.

The entertainment to be provided all next summer at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, No. 1 U.S. indoor sport arena: public dancing (two big-name dance bands every night), and beer.

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