Word: druids
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jones' spectacular play began with his adolescence. He and his young companion, Perry Adair, were astonishing the senior members of Druid Hills (Atlanta) where they both wore short trousers even to parties. Jones was but 14 when he led a field of the country's ablest for half a qualifying round at the Merion Cricket Club (Philadelphia). The beating he gave Gardner at Oakmont three years later was payment for a budnipping that occurred in the third round of that Merion affair. Francis Ouimet administered the budnipping at the Engineers' Club (Roslyn, L. I.) in 1920, Willie Hunter...
...last week North Georgians filled three fourths of the semi-final bracket and all of the finals. With a theatrical flourish, 18-year-old Gene Cook of Atlanta won the title from redoubtable 'Watts Gunn, his clubmate. The B. Jones who reached the semi-final was Benjamin, of Druid Hills Club, Atlanta, and not chubby Robert Tyler Jones Jr., North Georgia's super-golfer. The latter, together with able Perry Adair of Atlanta, busies himself with his bond-selling between tournaments of national scope...
...sandwich will be found a grand Barbecue at the Druid Hills Golf Club, an out-of-door concert with Stone Mountain as a sounding board (it is on Stone Mountain that Gutzon Borglum is preparing to carve a historical representation of the South), and a visit to Emory University, the largest in the South...