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...qualifying round of the Western Amateur Championship, dextrous Dexter Cummings of Omventsia (Lake Forest, Ill.), onetime Intercollegiate Champion (1923, 1924), bore witness to his manhood (last month he was graduated by Yale University) by bashing his way around the 6,780-yard Lochmoor links in 68 strokes. After a good night's sleep, he strode forth again and bashed out a 70-138 for 36 holes, a "world's record" for tournament play...
Soon the dirge that is sung (superstitiously) for all medalists, went up. Russell Martin of Chicago dogged Dexter in his first-round match, let him beat himself with three putts at the 18th green...
Intercollegiates. The East dropped its jaw?and a title it had kept since 1897. At the Montclair, N.J., Golf Club, trouble brewed in the U.S. Intercollegiate Championship when Lauren Upson, University of California ousted defending champion Dexter Cummings, Yale. Trouble effervesced as two sectional college champions?A. Jack Westland, a tidy little golfer from the University of Washington, and squat, blond G. Fred Lamprecht, Tulane?cut their way to the finals. In the title match, Westland clung close to par. Lamprecht would have none of it. He cracked out three consecutive 34-5, the first two of which shaved...
...play. Besides, her stern decision makes no reference to informal matches. She might, hoped many, come over some day with her ex-Brritish Amateur Champion brother, Roger, and have a friendly world's brother-sister championship with the Chicago Cummingses, ex-National Champion Edith and ex-Intercollegiate Champion Dexter...
...Entry Franklin Dexter '28, Room...