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...prize is given annually to that member of the graduating class "who during his four-year course is deemed best to have upheld the ideals of the school in loyalty, character, high scholastic standing, and quality of work." The award was given by Dr. S. Ellsworth Davenport, Jr., D.M.D. '10, of New York City, in memory of his father...
Looking forward to next year, when 23-year-old Donald Budge will probably follow Bill Tilden, Ellsworth Vines and Fred Perry into professional tennis (at some $100,000 a year), sport fans felt sorry for the amateur game...
...arguments centred around: 1) Defending Champion Johnny Goodman and whether he could win the Amateur for the second year in a row; 2) Atlanta's Charley Yates and whether he could add the U. S. title to the British Amateur title he won last spring; 3) Professional Tennist Ellsworth Vines, onetime U. S. amateur tennis champion, and whether he could reach the final - and thereby duplicate the feat of Mary K. Browne, tennis champion in 1912-13-14, who reached the final of the U. S. women's golf championship...
After the first round of medal play over Oakmont's tricky, rain-soaked course, one of the arguments was stilled. Ellsworth Vines got an 86, had no chance of being included among the 64 low scorers who qualified for the six rounds of match-play elimination. Tyro Vines would have promptly driven back to Pasadena (or perhaps on to the national tennis matches at Forest Hills) were it not for the fact that he had taken along a young Southern California tank-town actor named Pat Abbott to keep him company on his trans continental motor trip. Pat Abbott...
After Abbott disposed of Chapman, and Turnesa eliminated Kingsley, Ellsworth Vines found himself basking in the fame of his traveling companion, who had theretofore been a comparative unknown in spite of the fact that he had won the National Public Links championship two years ago. The gallery of 3,000, who turned out for the final, made "Little Willie" the sentimental favorite. They all knew that he was the son of an Italian greenskeeper, that his six brothers had chipped in to put him through Holy Cross, insisted that he become a gentleman golfer and made him remain an amateur...