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...first came in the semifinals, when Little and Johnny Goodman, U. S. Open Champion in 1933, came to the 27th hole. Little and Goodman were roommates at Cleveland's Country Club. It had been a friendly good-natured match in which, while the two joked and chatted their way around the course, Goodman had pulled up to all-even after being 2 clown at the start of the afternoon round. Now, at a short hole, Goodman pitched his tee shot within two feet of the pin for an easy birdie. Little's ball stopped rolling 15 feet from...
...objects of the maneuvers were to provide training in: 1) mobilization, 2) the "logistics of a concentration," 3) field service. Of the five divisions present the 1st (Regular) is now in process of motorization. The other four-44th New Jersey & New York, 27th New York, 43rd and 26th New England-had to depend largely on trains, although as an experiment 400 taxicabs and private trucks were hired to convey troops to the camp from Buffalo and Manhattan at a cost of $95,000. All told, there were nearly 3,000 motorcabs engaged in the maneuvers as compared...
...fight to acquaint their men with the status of the battle. Most exciting inci dents were the routing of a detachment by a hornet's nest, the flight of an umpire with a red flag from two belligerent cows, the capture of Hill 300 by the 27th Divi sion's swift advance and its subsequent loss because of: i) failure of communica tions, 2) an attack of real ptomaine poisoning which completely incapacitated two batteries...
...Vare the three times they played each other-once at St. Andrews in the British final when Glenna Collett, with 34 for the first nine holes, was 6 up at the 12th. Joyce Wethered played 18 consecutive holes in 73, had a lead of 4 up at the 2 27th hole. For years she played most of her golf against her famed Brother Roger, who tied for the British Open in 1921, won the British Amateur in 1923. She frequently beat him. In 1930, Bobby Jones called her "the finest golfer I have ever seen," a compliment noteworthy for banality...
...liquidating the confusion which they soon discovered, receivers tried to sell the 447-ft. Foshay Tower not once, not twice, not thrice but 26 times. Only once was there a bidder for the tallest building in Minneapolis-a jobless man who offered $1 spot cash. Last week on the 27th attempt, the Foshay Tower was finally sold to a group of bondholders for an unrevealed price...