Word: dutra
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, large Olin Anthony Dutra was seized in his mighty middle by great gripes which he feared were amebic dysentery. He spent two days resting in Detroit, arrived in Philadelphia with a box of pills and the intention of watching the tournament instead of playing in it. His brother Mortie persuaded him not to withdraw his entry. With a caddy who had dreamed that he would win, Dutra started out, ambling slowly, using his niblick as a walking stick...
First day of the tournament Dutra did nothing remarkable. He and 21 other entrants had 76. Headlines went to Bobby Cruickshank, Whiffey Cox and Charley Lacey who led the field; to Lawson Little, just back from winning the British Amateur, who broke his favorite driver and made a feeble 83; to the fact that no one in the windblown field of 149 players managed to equal...
Second day of the tournament, Dutra had a 74 which left him well behind the leaders. Jimmy Hines managed to equal par for the course, and Cruickshank shot a 71 which put him three strokes ahead of Sarazen, four ahead...
...huge gallery followed Cox and Cruickshank, playing together. They finished their last two rounds tied at 295. Sarazen followed them a few minutes later slopping home with 294. Not until Sarazen had posted his score did the crowd at the 18th green begin to wonder what had become of Dutra. He and Lawson Little were the last pair in the field. Playing with almost no gallery, taking a pill which his caddy offered him every hour, Dutra, 15 Ib. lighter than when the tournament began, was on the 15th tee, waiting for officials to silence a yapping fox terrier...
...dogleg par four, Jock Hutchinson and big Bob MacDonald each got 2s, the other members of their foursome, 3s. Blue Mound is still only 6,270 yd. long, shorter than most championship links. In the qualifying rounds, an obscure Timber Point (L. I.) professional named Jimmy Hines, and Mortie Dutra, hulking brother of the hulking defending champion, tied for the medal with 138. Par 70 was broken or tied 16 times and the 31 out of 97 starters who qualified needed 146 or better. In the first round, Leo Diegel lost to a long-driving young Western pro named Willie...