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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course, British bookmakers chalked their odds. Favorite at 8-to-1 was Johnny Goodman who had impressed Londoners as well as canny natives on the Ayrshire coast during his practice rounds since landing in the British Isles the week before. Others fancied were: Defending Champion Robert Sweeny, American-born Londoner who is famed for the elegance of his Ascots as well as the elegance of his swing; Scot Hector Thomson who won the title in 1936 and holds the course record at Troon; John Stevenson, a local sensation who knew every clump of gorse on the course. Boy Bruen...
...Champion Yates, a 24-year-old Atlanta bank clerk whose best previous accomplishment had been a Western Amateur victory in 1935, went the distinction of being the fourth U. S.-born-&-bred golfer to win the British Amateur** and the first to beat its peculiar hazards in his first competitive experience on a British course. He attributed his amazing victory to a suit of red flannel underwear his friend and fellow townsman, Bobby Jones, had given him to keep out the Scottish gales. Scottish spectators thought they had seen the greatest golfer since Bobby Jones...
...Born in Omaha's meat-packing district, of Lithuanian immigrant parents, John George Goodman was practically unknown when he calmly drove up to the Pebble Beach course in 1929 and qualified for the U. S. Amateur. The following day the 19-year-old Omaha Kid made the front pages when he eliminated Bobby Jones in the first round of match play. But in his home town Johnny Goodman had long been front-page news, was as much a part of Omaha as its stockyards. He first appeared in the news in 1916 when...
...Born. To Louise Converse Morgan Clark, eldest granddaughter of John Pierpont Morgan, and Raymond Skinner Clark; their first child and Banker Morgan's first great-grandchild; a son; in New Haven, Conn...
...Born. To John Davison Rockefeller Jr., three grandchildren; to Mr. & Mrs. John D. 3rd, their third, a daughter; to Mr. & Mrs. Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, their fourth and fifth, a twin son and daughter; all in Manhattan...