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...tell you, Alf Landon, if you succeed me at the White House you ought to get a boat and try out the Potomac River for fishing. I have taken week-end trips and they have done me a lot of good...
Gene Sarazen got 141 and three other U. S. players equaled par with 142, which none of the Britons could do. Alf Padgham, defending champion, shot a 78 and a 74. With the weather bonny the next day, Padgham and Reginald Whitcombe turned in 723 for the first 18 holes of championship play, but easy-going Ed Dudley of Philadelphia passed them with a 70, followed by Denny Shute, twice U. S. professional champion, with a 73. In the second round, with only a light easterly breeze, the competition grew keener. For Great Britain, Reginald Whitcombe scored...
...home ground, on the eve of the biennial Cup matches in England last week Captain Walter Hagen boldly picked his U. S. professionals to win, was so confident that he ventured to predict the score: 8-to-4. To oppose Great Britain's topflight Golfers Henry Cotton and Alf Padgham in the opening "Scotch foursome" (partners hitting alternate strokes) he thereupon picked not Tony Manero and Ralph Guldahl, U. S. Open champions for 1936 and 1937, but Byron Nelson, 25-year-old one-time Texas railroad clerk, and seasoned Ed Dudley...
...Charley Michelson, was "ignoring the mutterings of the Liberal group of Republicans." The same principle, he thinks, will work in the future. Only chance for a Republican comeback is to stop straddling the liberal-conservative fence, return to the "rock-ribbed citadel of oldtime, fundamental conservatism." That is why Alf Landon and John Hamilton, both tainted with Western progressivism, should be tossed overboard. The Republican National Chairman should be an emotional as well as physical resident of Manhattan, should "sit at the feet of the magnates, political and financial, and saturate himself with their philosophy...
...pound race, Vincent Ditrinco, a promising boxer, fast on his feet, with good boxing sense, and Dave Simboli, who if he has a good day will be hard to beat. All in all Henry Lamar has some really scrappy boxers. Better come down tonight and watch Alf Corbett try to square the count with Pete Olney as they put their men through their paces...