Article: Hickson hangs on for NEPGA title

NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. -- John Hickson moved up on Maine's list of sporting success stories yesterday in the gusting winds that swept over Quidnessett CC on Narragansett Bay. He finished on the shaky side with three bogeys over the final four holes but hung on to win the 75th New England PGA Championship by one shot over favorite son Dana Quigley.

The victory may not have elevated Hickson, a native of Hampden, Maine, and an instructor at the Bethel Inn golf school, to the upper echelons achieved by Joan Benoit Samuelson or the Black Bear hockey team, but it made him the first Pine Tree State resident pro to win

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