The unknowns who turn up at the National Amateur golf tournament often run short of clean clothes if they unexpectedly survive the opening rounds. In Bethlehem, Pa. last week, sandy-haired Billy Maxwell, 22, captain of the North Texas State College golf team, had brought along "three pairs of pants and not much else." Still in the running after the third day's play, Joe Gagliardi, a 39-year-old lawyer who has never won the championship at his own Winged Foot Club in Mamaroneck, N.Y., sent home for more shirts, his wife & five children. At week's end, after outshooting all the big guns...
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