Word: coxes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...list of qualifiers for the $7,500 Open Match Play Championship at Lake Merced near San Francisco, last week, were most of the best known U. S. golfing names-Billy Burke, Sarazen, Horton Smith, Cox, Diegel, Von Elm, Kirkwood, Golden, Olin Dutra and two San Francisco Espinosas, Romie and Henry, less famous than their brothers Abe and Al. Johnny Farrell had given up golf for a honeymoon. P. G. A. Champion Tom Creavy was there but he had a bad knee. Tommy Armour failed to show up. Walter Hagen, Amateur Johnny Dawson, Aubrey Boomer (British pro from St. Cloud, France...
Burke went out in the third round. So did Diegel. In a driving rain Wiffy Cox got a 5-hole lead on George Von Elm before the match was postponed at the 18th. Next day the best Von Elm could do was to hold his own until the 31st, when Cox laid, him a stymie two inches from the cup. Von Elm used his niblick, missed, and Cox's par 5 won the match...
Pilot Floyd C. Cox took off from Newark Airport for what ordinarily would have been a 68-min. express flight to Washington. This time a special stop was to be made at Camden to discharge one of the passengers, Francis R. Ehle, president of International Resistance Co. Besides two other paying passengers Pilot Vernon Lucas was deadheading on the plane to get home early...
Functioning apparently perfectly the ship circled the airport at Camden with landing lights on. Pilot Cox had throttled down to land, when, for no reason that observers could see, the ship lost flying speed and dived straight down upon a golf course adjoining the field. To all within the cabin, Death came instantaneously...
...pathetic memento was left by Pilot Cox. Earlier in the week he had borrowed $20 from the Camden passenger terminal. He left a note in the cashdrawer: "I 0 U $20. If I crack up, present this to my wife for collection." Just before taking off from Newark on his last flight he sent a message over the company's teletype: "I have the $20. Have a bodyguard meet my plane...