Word: amateurs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When crime looms in London there is but one thing to do?report to Scotland Yard. As any reader of the best detective fiction knows, the "C. I. D." (Criminal Investigation Department) will unravel the knottiest mystery in the shortest possible time. In fiction there is usually an amateur on hand to simplify the C. I. D.'s work. In actuality, for many a long year, the master mind of Scotland Yard, the prototype of Sherlock Holmes, a sleuth in no need of amateur assistance, has been Chief Constable Frederick Wensley, a real super-detective credited with solving more murders...
...Espinosa went first professional money, $1,000; to Amateur Jones, a gold medal. Between the next 19 professionals was divided...
Robert Tyre Jones Jr., Atlanta lawyer, U. S. amateur golf champion, went last week to Mamaroneck, N. Y., to compete in the U. S. open championship over the Winged Foot course. Said he: "It all depends on irons. If I don't get the confounded things to working this week there's no likelihood that I'll change my title now or any time in the near future." In two practice rounds he shot 69, 70. Par for Winged Foot...
...108th Bishop of London, the Rt. Hon., Rt. Rev. Arthur Foley Winnington Ingram, had every reason to be well pleased last week. In Town was a 23-year-old friend of his, Helen Newington Wills, that tennis girl from California. Although she is perhaps the world's best amateur woman player and although he is a septuagenarian, the Bishop and Miss Wills played tennis together last month while she was in England to be presented at Court. It was not, however, to play him a return match that she had returned. It was Wimbledon time. The Bishop, like many another...
...Bishop eyed and appraised the other seeded women players, Spain's dark and dashing Lili d'Alvarez who would like to play in a bathing suit; England's cheery, sandy-haired Eileen Bennett and determined, hard-driving Betty Nuthall; Mme. Renee Mathieu who is France's greatest woman amateur; Miss E. L. Heinie who lives and plays in South Africa; rosy Fraulein Aussem of Germany, and the other Californian Helen, Miss Jacobs, who strained her back a few days before the tournament but did not think it would bother her and between whom and Helen Wills is supposed to exist...