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First day of the tournament Dutra did nothing remarkable. He and 21 other entrants had 76. Headlines went to Bobby Cruickshank, Whiffey Cox and Charley Lacey who led the field; to Lawson Little, just back from winning the British Amateur, who broke his favorite driver and made a feeble 83; to the fact that no one in the windblown field of 149 players managed to equal...
Second day of the tournament, Dutra had a 74 which left him well behind the leaders. Jimmy Hines managed to equal par for the course, and Cruickshank shot a 71 which put him three strokes ahead of Sarazen, four ahead...
...third day a huge gallery followed Cox and Cruickshank, playing together. They finished their last two rounds tied at 295. Sarazen followed them a few minutes later slopping home with 294. Not until Sarazen had posted his score did the crowd at the 18th green begin to wonder what had become of Dutra. He and Lawson Little were the last pair in the field. Playing with almost no gallery, taking a pill which his caddy offered him every hour, Dutra, 15 Ib. lighter than when the tournament began, was on the 15th tee, waiting for officials to silence a yapping...
...Shields 5. Cruickshank...
Dour little Bobby Cruickshank played so badly against Al Watrous of Detroit that he was 9 down on the 24th green. Watrous felt sorry for him and conceded a hard six-foot putt for a half. Bobby Cruickshank plays his best golf when he is angry; sympathy makes him furious. He won nine of the next eleven holes, clinched the match on the 41st green by pitching a niblick shot dead and dropping the putt for a 4 while Watrous, on the green in 2, took...