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...Cyril Tolley (British...
...very little; they knew even less about the progress of the matches than the wet sharpers at Epsom Downs knew about the Derby. Lucky were those who stood around the huge 13th green (the biggest golf green in the world) when Watts Gunn and Bobby Jones were playing Cyril Tolley and A. Jamieson Jr. On that green, young Gunn holed a putt that measured 44 feet. Another important green in the foursome play was the second, where Holderness and Wethered made a pair of recoveries from bad lies and got confidence enough therefrom to beat Francis Ouimet and Jesse Guilford...
Bobby Jones beat Cyril Tolley. Jones tried for birdies; Tolley tried for fives, took sixes and sevens; Jones drove like a matchless machine, geared to hit the ball 270 yards; Tolley hooked, sliced, topped, drove out of bounds into a lumber yard on the second hole, picked up four times, won only a single hole, lost by the incredible score of 12 down...
Play had not gone far before major casualties occurred. Hammering hooks, ripping off slices, hewing up divots like graveslabs, ponderous Cyril Tolley of England duffered out of the tournament with a suddenness and completeness that boded ill to Britain's Walker Cup chances later on, for Tolley is the British team's captain. But then U. S. Captain Robert Gardner spent a morning "hitting the ball on the roof" (i. e., topping shots) and dishonors were even. As one despatch paraphrased it: "His driving was singular and putting plural...
...Married. Cyril Hume, novelist (Wife of the Centaur, Cruel Fellowship), to Miss Charlotte Dickinson of Grand Rapids, after meeting her for the first time at the wedding of Novelist Bronson (see above), at which he functioned as best man and she as honor maid. Novelist Hume's first wife, the onetime Jane Barbara Alexander, died last year in Florence, Italy, (TIME, June 1, MILESTONES...