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Before the tournament started, dour, one-eyed Tommy Armour had made a brusque comment on Sarazen's reluctance to play: "Hagen, Sarazen and I ... are just about all washed up, only we don't know it." Grinning Sarazen's comment after the tournament was over was: "Pretty good for a washed-up golfer." He had finished his morning round with Goggin-200 lb., 6 ft. instructor at a San Francisco municipal course-1 up, won three of the next five holes, clinched his third P. G. A. championship with a birdie at the 32nd...
...cars" each four feet wide and twelve feet long-carrying about as much goods as a fair-sized motor truck. The freight tunnel system, begun in 1901, was mainly an accident; the first tunnels were built by an independent telephone company which went on the rocks. Reorganization followed; Ogden Armour and E. H. Harriman put in new capital. The system was enlarged, 49 connections made with different freight terminals of Chicago's numerous railroads. The tunnel system was set at work distributing and collecting package freight between railroads and shippers; also transferring freight from railroad to railroad, also distributing...
Lolita Sheldon Armour, relict of Meat-Packer Jonathan Ogden Armour, paid $1,000,000 cash* to the estate of Ethel Field Beatty, Countess Beatty, daughter of Marshall Field, for a small (53.2 x 150.5 ft.) lot on the northeast corner of Chicago's State & Madison Streets, "world's busiest corner." Bought t»y Marshall Field in 1876 for $53,390, now part of the site of a department store, it returns $60,000 annually, is assessed...
...Meat-Packer Armour after the War lost $1,000,000 a day for 130 days, died insolvent in 1927. But the oil-cracking process of one Carbon Petroleum Dubbs, in which he had plunged, made Mrs. Armour wealthy again...
...player in good weather also. He tied Gene Sarazen for third place in the U. S. Open on a hot June day in 1929. Now 28, medium-sized, dark-haired, lightly built and generally considered to have more finesse with his iron clubs than any other professional except Tommy Armour, Shute by his victory last week made it seem that he was the likeliest of the younger professionals to acquire the prestige which has been shared for the last decade by Sarazen and Hagen...