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...With Walter Hagen and Jock Hutchison, British-born James ("Long Jim") Barnes was the most famed U. S. golfer of the early post-War era. He won the Professional Golfers Association Championship twice (1916 and 1919), the U. S. Open in 1921, the British Open in 1925, retired from tournament golf because he was bored by it in 1932. Last week at Huntington, N. Y., when the -Long Island Open Championship was played over his home Crescent Club course, Long Jim Barnes, 51, decided it was his duty as host to compete. He chose the smallest available caddy, picked...
...missed another on the 18th, took a 66. Meantime the defending champion, Tony Manero was floundering around nine strokes behind the leaders, Gene Sarazen was restoring himself momentarily to a contending position with a 69 after a first round 78 and, as anticipated, Guldahl, Snead, Big Ed Dudley and British-born Harry Cooper, who has twice turned out to be runner-up in the Open after posting a score apparently good enough to win, were fighting with Thomson for the lead...
...holes topped the field by three strokes. . . . Officials of the Professional Golfers Association were pleased when three of the players they had selected for the Ryder Cup team that will play England this month and four others named as eligible for it were in the round of eight. . . . British-born Harry Cooper last year broke the record for the U. S. Open by two strokes, lost the title when Tony Manero broke it by four. Last week when Cooper and Manero played each other in the quarterfinals, Cooper was 4 up with nine holes to play. Manero...
...this vast external realm," observed the bearded, British-born old Associate Justice, "with important, complicated, delicate and manifold problems, the President alone has the power to speak or listen as a representative of the nation. He makes treaties with the advice and consent of the Senate; but he alone negotiates...
Having voted since he was 21, joined the Reserve Officers Training Corps at Yale and run for New York State Senator in 1934, British-born Poloist Winston Frederick Churchill Guest was pronounced in the District of Columbia Supreme Court a U. S. citizen. Poloist Guest submitted that his mother and he had been repatriated following her separation from her British husband, a point which the U. S. Labor Department questioned...