Word: darwin
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...Here is Darwin's searing still-life portrait of Bobby Jones playing out the eighteenth hole of St. Andrews...
...Darwin, a man of great erudition, also had eclectic tastes. He wrote children's books, two works on Dickens, a guide to the historic landmarks of London, and biographies of the cricketeer W.G. Grace and the bare-fisted pugilist John Gully, who went on to be an M.P. He is, however, universally and rightly recognized as the doyen of golf writers...
...breathless narrative of Walter Hagen's closing charge in the 1924 British Open at Holyoke to catch Ernest Whitcombe jumps off of the page. Hagen was facing a long putt on the tenth hole after a shaky front nine when Darwin begins...
...Darwin, in spite of his Victorian-era swing, was a leading amateur himself. He played in the 1921 British amateur in a field which included a contingent of eight Americans, one of whom was Bobby Jones. The British, who still dominated the game, were afraid one of the fine, young American golfers would snatch the AMateur crown...
...Americans were eventually eliminated except Paul Hunter and Freddy Wright. It was left up to Darwin to defeat Hunter in the fifth round and Wright in the sixth. The night after knocking out Wright, Darwin was accosted on the street by a stranger who had been staring at him from a distance. The stranger in an emotion-choked voice thundered, "Sir, I would like to thank you for the way in which you saved your country...