Word: compston
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coming through the rain at Delaware Water Gap, Pa., last week, was the hulk of Archie Compston, British golfer. He was doing well-one under par on the last nine holes. That gave him a final card of 287 and the Eastern Open championship. Said a rain-vexed U. S. golfer, "High time an Englishman won at golf...
...Heron of Reading, Pa., finished two strokes behind Compston. Aubrey Boomer of St. Cloud, France, who looked like a winner, blew up near the finish...
...staying, and out at the Olympia Fields course the bookmakers were giving odds: Bobby Jones 3 to i to win the National Open championship for the third time; Walter Hagen, 5 to 1; John Farrell, 8 to 1; last year's champion Tommy Armour, 8 to 1; Archie Compston, 10 to 1. All the other players, except Sarazen, were at long odds, for no single golfer taken against the field, against the difficulties of the course, of competition and the tension of his own nerves, has much chance to win the National Open...
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...
...where the Prince of Wales would give him the cup. Hastily Jurado handed in his own score, an 80 that put him in a tie with Barnes for fifth place, noticing as he passed the board that Hagen's total was 292, Sara-zen's 294, Archie Compston...