Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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British Hope. What had given them newborn hope was the discovery of an 18-year-old Irish schoolboy, James Bruen, who skyrocketed into the realm of British stars four weeks ago, during the Walker Cup trials, when he equaled famed Bobby Jones's amateur record of 68 for the championship course at St. Andrews. His total for four rounds (68, 71, 71, 72) was three strokes better than the score Bobby Jones registered to win the 1927 British Open on that course-a total good enough to have won any championship ever played at ancient St. Andrews. Hailed...
...strongest and youngest team the U. S. had ever selected. The Americans, too, thought they had the best amateur golfer since Bobby Jones: 28-year-old Johnny Goodman of Omaha, U. S. Amateur champion, the best shotmaker and most consistent scorer of 1937, who had never lost a Walker Cup match (1934 or 1936). Other members of the team, chosen on the basis of performances during the past two years, were: Ray Billows of Poughkeepsie (runner-up to Goodman in last year's Amateur), Johnny Fischer of Cincinnati (Amateur champion in 1936), Freddy Haas of New Orleans...
...elegance of his swing; Scot Hector Thomson who won the title in 1936 and holds the course record at Troon; John Stevenson, a local sensation who knew every clump of gorse on the course. Boy Bruen had passed up the Amateur to save his energy for the Walker Cup matches...
Omaha Kid-One of the first to congratulate Champion Yates was his roommate, Johnny Goodman. Although he had hoped to add the British Amateur to his collection of cups, Johnny Goodman was not hopeless. Bobby Jones, too, had been eliminated before the semi-finals in the 1926 British Amateur which his Walker Cup teammate Jess Sweetser finally won. In fact, Bobby Jones failed three times before finally winning it in 1930, the year he made his famed "Grand Slam" (British Amateur, British Open, U. S. Amateur, U. S. Open). Goodman could still try for the British Open next month...
...Louis Banker Dwight Filley Davis put up the Davis tennis cup...