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Entering the treacherous "loop" stretch of the old course, where the holes criss-cross among wiry gorse and whins, he played the next four holes in twelve shots. He finished the round in 68, tying the course record. He clicked off his next round in 72, forcing players with more than the respectable total of 155 out of play. ? His pluperfect form lapsed to mere perfection in a third round of par 73. He finished with another 72, six strokes ahead of two British professionals?Aubrey Boomer and Fred Robson?who had brilliantly equaled the previous tournament record...
...Crimson Ramblers have been engaged to provide the music at all performances. It will be a complete 12 piece orchestra under the direction of J. W. Green '28. Outstanding musical hits are "Once Upon a Time", "When You Have Gone Away", "Criss-Cross", "Carry Me Back", "Ragtime Cowboy Jones", and "Beneath Western Stars". The music and lyrics are by Richard Donham...
Americana, Countess Maritza, Criss-Cross, Oh Kay, Pirates of Penzance, Queen High, Ramblers, Scandals...
...Criss-Cross) : "From Greenville, Ohio, I received a heavy brown pasteboard box, which I carried to the stage of the Globe Theatre, Manhattan, and opened in the presence of a notary public. It con tained several scrapbooks, with clippings, photographs, letters and a typed autobiography up to 1890 of my late friend, Annie Oakley Butler, ablest markswoman in history, who died last month (TIME, Nov. 15). There was no letter of explanation but it seemed apparent that Annie Oakley, with whom I played in a circus some 20 years ago, wished me to be her Boswell...
...Harvard cheering stands shivered with Bostonian excitement; fine old gentlemen pushed aside their steamer rugs and rose to their feet, drawling the name of their Alma Mater. Then, amazingly, Holy Cross began to throw the ball around in sly slants, in criss-cross webs, to come from under a 14-0 handicap and win the game...