Word: dexterity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
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...
...Captain Dexter Cummings will lead off for the Eli golfers. He has been intercollegiate champion for the last two years and has set up a score of 71 for the Westchester Biltmore Country Club course, which has only been surpassed by Hagen. The remainder of his team, composed of Wattles, Flinn, Ordway, Haviland, and Tuttle, present a powerful array, which has only been defeated this year by Princeton. Although the latter fell before the University onslaught, it would be unwise to take much stock in the comparative scores, since they are still more undependable in golf than in any other...