Word: brookes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Number six man J. Brook Stokes, former state and city champion from Memphis, Tenn., lost to Perky Cullinane of Georgetown, two and one. Cullinane lost to Fehr in the afternoon finals...
...were: Ted Cooney (H) defeated Fred Oman, 8 and 7; Bruce Thurmond (H) lost to Don Purple, 3 and 2; Jim Bailey (H) defeated Al Anderson, 4 and 3; Bob Ornsteen (H) defeated Pete Barnes one up after 19 holes; Roger Fleischmann (H) defeated Dick Drake, 4 and 3; Brook Stokes (H) defeated F. Barteaux one up at the end of 19 holes; and Jim Jones (H) defeated Pete Diamond...
Third man Brook Stokes topped Williams' Bill Chapman, 5 and 3, by taking holes with pars whenever his opponent bogied...
...Clive Brook plays this pukka sahib version of Marlon Brando with a skill that makes "stiff upper-lip" an entire facial expression...
When troops are not being machine-gunned, young ladies not being violated and Clive Brook not being fantastically cool as he thrashes some bounder, the rest of the passengers take up the slack with much interesting chatter. There is a nice old lady who may, or may not, be a madame, depending on the viewer's state of mind, a disgraced French officer, an American gambler, a missionary, and an unpleasant German opium dealer. All these help make Shanghai Express a picture that, although it begins slowly, chugs its way into a lot of excitement and interest...