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Show Snead Plans Rest After Taking Title By LARRY ROLLINS MIAMI, Fla., Dee. 18 WV-Sam Snead, who said he still didn't feel "in the pink," headed back home today for a physical overhauling, after limping four times around the'course""ln ZfiIlrokeiTJusT 1 nine under par, to win S2500 top I prize in the Miami open, the year's final golf tournament. Two strokes off the pace going Into the final round; the White Sulphur Springs, W. Vs.. pro hit his stride yesterday and tied the course record with a six below be-low par 64 and breezed home two shots in front of Harold (Jug) Mc-Spaden, Mc-Spaden, the Winchester rifle from Boston. Needs Check-Over "I'm still not feeling exactly up to snuff," grinned Snead, who had been out of tournament competition competi-tion for more than a month. "I want to have my teeth checked over, and I might not be able to go to the coast for the western circuit. I may be able to Join the caravan again when it comes back to Texas." Several months ago Snead suffered suf-fered a pain in his back. After an examination three teeth were extracted, and he felt better. He said that he might have another tooth or two out . "I hope to be In better form .when I get back into competition," he said. Snead's burst of subpar golf, his second In two years (he won the Miami open In 1937 with a record 267) came when most of the early leaders were folding up. McSpaden rallied heroically with a four under par 31 on the final nine holes for his 67 and 72 hole 273, but the recovery came too late. One by one, the other pace setters set-ters dropped from the running, and a comparative unknown, 28-year-old Bud Williamson of Fort Wayne, Ind., came up with his second 66. of the tournament for third place at 276. Another youngster, young-ster, Ben Hogan of White Plains, N.- Y., finished with a 68 and 277 for fourth place, a stroke In front of National Open Champion Byron By-ron Nelson. McSpaden earned I12S0, Williamson Wil-liamson 11000, Hogan $750 and Nelson $600. Tier tor Sixths Ed Oliver of Hornell, N. T.: Gene Kunes of Philadelphia, and E. J. (Dutch) Harrison of Little Rock, Ark., tied for sixth place at 279, each collecting 400. Nelson picked up enough points to beat ut Henry Picard, the F. G. A. king, for the Harry Vardon trophy emblematic of the year's professional supremacy. Nelson finished with 473 points to Plcard's 46l. Snead wound up third with 345. Although Picard won only $100 In the final tournament, a 282 score for a fourteenth-place tie, ha still finished as the year's top purse winner with $10,303. Snead moved up to second with $9712, and Ralph Guldahl, whose 281 earned him $100, was third at $9477. Nelson Nel-son was. fourth with $9444. |