Word: boomer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many things had happened in those early rounds. Tommy Armour was out of it; Boomer and Compston, the Englishmen, were out of it, far down the list; MacFarlane was barely in the running. Maurice McCarthy, young amateur, paired with Hagen, was taking eights and tens; Chick Evans, once champion, scored a 90. Al Watrous, wild as a hawk, hit a spectator in the stomach with a pitch shot; Sarazen went to pieces; a man named Leach had come up to stand second to Jones and Walter Hagen after a first round of 40 played the last nine...
...Manhattan, explaining that the one-time Secretary of State, onetime U. S. Supreme Court Justice and "best mind in the Republican Party" was the only man to pit against Democrat Alfred Emanuel Smith for the votes of Business and Labor. Celebrities were few at the Fish-Hughes rally, but Boomer Fish was not rebuked by the Party chiefs...
...clicked off his next round in 72, forcing players with more than the respectable total of 155 out of play. ? His pluperfect form lapsed to mere perfection in a third round of par 73. He finished with another 72, six strokes ahead of two British professionals?Aubrey Boomer and Fred Robson?who had brilliantly equaled the previous tournament record...
Thousand Guineas. Down the spacious, windy fairways of Gleneagles, Scotland, perhaps the grandest golf course in the world, professionals from far and wide beat their balls as they qualified to play for the annual bag of a thousand guineas ($5,000). Vivacious Aubrey Boomer of St. Cloud, France, led them all with a record 69, until swart Abe Mitchell passed him with a pair of 70's for the two rounds. Joe Kirkwood, sole U. S. entrant, was lucky to qualify with 153, the first 80 strokes of which were somewhat impeded by a family of ducks that paraded...
...object to your article on Lawrence Tibbett (issue June 15, Page 13) where you refer to "paunchy hotel proprietor." Here are the names of the five foremost hotel men in the business: John M ("Jack") Bowman, Lucius Boomer, E M. 'Statler, Ernest Stevens, Frank A. Dudley, the last named the head of the greatest hotel chain in the world. But where is their "PAUNCH." Even yours truly denies the possession of one. Gaze on the enclosed pictures of the youngsters in the Class in Hotel Management at Cornell University. Dockery is 6 feet 3; the graduates average just...