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Tommy Armour, Detroit professional golfer, onetime (1927) U. S. Open Champion, played 18 holes in 59 strokes and won an invitation tournament over Cinemactor Harold Lloyd's miniature golf course, at Beverly Hills, Calif. The course is difficult for amateurs, the holes criss-cross each other and an artificial, pump-driven stream. Other features of the Harold Lloyd estate: an oldtime English barbecue, complete with kitchen, shelter and roasting pit; a swimming pool; four tennis courts; twelve handball courts; a miniature four-room house for Daughter Gloria...
...previous opening games. These all started from the same formation used last season, the ends wide and a back in motion. Line bucks, off-tackle slants, and end runs were checked by a forward and lateral passing attack. A surprising variation in such an early game was a criss-cross. The backfields, which have been working under the experienced eye of Coach Casey, functioned in good early season order. The timing was off, on occasion, as was shown by the narrow failure of several of the forward passes attempted. Several members of the ball carrying squad exhibited a style...
...position of treasurer, left vacant through the serious illness of Barret Hoyt '30, will be filled by vote of the Council. the activities of the Budget Committee have thus far been carried on under the supervision of John Criss '30, with the aid of Donough Prince '31, and Marshall Stearns '31. The figures on the Budget collections will--be compiled and ready for publication within a few days, it was announced...
...west from Baltimore to Cumberland, then stretches a long northern arm off to Chicago and a long southern arm off to St. Louis. It has also short but vital trackage between Washington, Baltimore and Philadelphia. Through West Virginia, southwestern Pennsylvania and Ohio, the B. & O. map shows many little criss-cross branches. West of Cincinnati and Toledo, however, its main lines stretch out in lonely isolation and in the critical region between Philadelphia and New York it has no trackage; it must operate over the lines of the Reading and the Jersey Central roads...
...river darkened and thundered towards the mill race, light came full on the high façade of decay. Incredible in its loneliness, roofless, floorless, beams criss-crossing the dank interior daylight, the whole place tottered, fit to crash at a breath. Hinges rustily bled where a door had been wrenched away...