Word: coxes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Francis Ouimet: his first golf tournament since winning the U. S. Amateur at Chicago last summer; the Massachusetts Open, at Osterville; with 287, one stroke better than a crack field which included Bobby Cruickshank, Wiffy Cox, Johnny Farrell...
...attempt to change the rules after the game has started. This radical change sounds like a cry for the life preserver." Senator Carter Glass, red with rage, called the proposal "a gambler's trick," such a nomination "damaged goods." "The whole enterprise smacks of poor sportsmanship," declared James Middleton Cox. Newton Diehl Baker said such a nominee would have "a moral flaw to his title...
...second round last week. Too proud of his appearance to wear glasses (which he probably needs), Hagen putted badly, drove well, made a left-handed recovery shot with a right-handed niblick, stayed in the running with 148 for the first two rounds. So did his partner, Wiffy Cox, who, when he failed to hole easy putts, threw away his ball and then his putter. Swart, cocky little Gene Sarazen, back from winning the British Open with a record 283, started badly on his onetime home course, but he was only a stroke back of Perkins, tied with Jurado...
...well knew last week as he sat in the locker-room sipping his beer. He knew also that the only men he really had to fear were Cruickshank and Sara zen. Hagen had blown up in the morning. Dutra had taken an 8 at the 15th. Jurado, Diegel and Cox had finished with higher scores than his. But Cruickshank and Sarazen were still out on the course. Cruickshank reached the turn in 33 and Sarazen in 32. Cruickshank needed a 68 for the round to tie and Sarazen needed 69. They were playing against the worst hazard in golf...
Last January an "army" of 10,000 "hunger marchers," under Father James R. Cox, Pittsburgh priest, turned up in Washington for a day or two of ineffectual demonstration...