Sport: 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...

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