Show eby j by ROBERT mcshane HANE j E by new poper won union S II EN ROGAN HOGAN pound professional B BEN from hershey pa is so ace accustomed to lining up at payoff window that he cant remember just when his winning streak started when hogan won the chicago open a couple of weeks ago his tournament earnings for the year totaled 1156 top money in the pro ranks the chicago open was the fifty first tournament in which den ben has been in the money though he remembers the number of consecutive meets in which his efforts have been rewarded with cash he cant remember where or when his streak got underway he thinks it was in september 1939 but know where the chicago open netted den ben 1200 and he figures he worked bard tor for every cent of st il the record bears him out he fired a 10 under par to dethrone dick metz whose landed him in third place and to beat craig wood national and masters champion woods was good for second place the pressure tells rogan hogan admits that the pressure of these innumerable trips to the payoff window is beginning to tell the undersized dynamo estimates that he been out of the maney more than five times since 1937 Q BEN HOGAN and that means a day after day week atter after week pressure with never a moments letup the golfer who develop internal jitters would be an iron man but hogan managed to quiet any jittery feeling he may have had during the three days of battle in the chicago open his opening day 66 five under par put him ahead of the field and he tore through the rest of the tourney slapping old man par in the face with rounds of 70 69 69 wood took a 73 in the opening round thereby losing his chance at the championship his subsequent rounds of 69 67 67 were nothing less than colossal but the initial two over par effort was too much of a handicap no Walka walkaway icay hogan shot a 69 2 under par to take the 54 hole lead with four strokes in front of wood during the course of that third round the gallery realized that hogan was not going to walk away with the tournament wood a champions champion had trailed den ben by six strokes at the start of the last days play lie he caught up with the pacemaker on the thirteenth hole of the morning round however he took a bogey on the fourteenth and finished 45 4 5 on the par four seventeenth and eighteenth while hogan came back with a pair of birdies to assume a tour four stroke lead as they went into the final round in the last 18 holes wood came within one stroke of reaching hogan but the master workman carried too many guns from a technical standpoint bens victory came at the thirteenth of the final round he hooked his drive to the rough and his second shot landed in a trap A beautiful swing with his blaster placed him a toot foot from the hole and for a par four from there on he miss the outcome of 0 the tournament pleased most ot of the spectators who were at the finish hogan the mighty midget had more than his share of 0 supporters always a tough competitor his current winning streak is to golf what demag gios hitting splurge was to baseball fans get a kick out ot of seeing the diminutive hogan belt a gou golf hall ball just as far and often farther than his heftier opponents his size handicapped him that is is evidenced by the fact that he has cashed in on so many consecutive appearances |