Word: baltusrol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This sage comment on "What It Takes To Win" was contributed to the program of the 40th U. S. Open tournament by famed Robert Tyre Jones Jr., present at New Jersey's Baltusrol Golf Club last week as a spectator. If, sitting in the locker room after he had finished playing, he had chanced to read it, Golfer Harry Cooper of Chicago might have felt reassured. Cooper had just posted not 287 but 284. This was the best score ever made in the Open, two strokes better than the record made by Chick Evans at Minikahda in 1916. only...
First day of the 40th U. S. Open was a surprise to the field of 164 players assembled from 28 golfing districts as the best the U.S. had to offer. Baltusrol's Upper course-entirely distinct from the Lower, where the Amateur was played ten years ago-proved unexpectedly easy. Fourteen scores were under par 72. After two rounds, the field was cut to the low 60. Seventeen golfers tied for 60th with 151. Defending Champion Sam Parks, who profited less from his title than any other Open winner since the War, was eliminated with a score...
...pages with never a trace of weariness on Author Revere's part. (He, too, lived a double life-with his book-while writing and rewriting it secretly at his New Jersey home, in spare moments over four years, giving up to his muse even golf at his beloved Baltusrol.) So heavily firm is his hand upon his characters that it is doubtful if critics who call his work crude will ruffle Author Revere's equanimity...