Word: elm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pink of cheek, blue of eye, modest of demeanor, he stood upon the 10th green of the Merion Cricket Club's West course at Ardmore, Pa., and received the cheers of 5,000 or more galleryites, the handshake of George Von Elm, youthful Los Angelist, whom he had defeated 10 and 8* in a ruthless final...
...when he beat W. T. Thompson (Canadian champion) 6 and 5; D. C. Corkran (Gold Mashie winner, tournament medalist) 3 and 2; R. E. Knepper (onetime Princetonian, demon putter) 6 and 4; Francis Ouimet (onetime amateur and open champion, clockwork putter, inexorable match-player) 11 and 10; then Von Elm...
...Marston, defending champion, survived until the semifinal. There Von Elm trampled him, 7 and 6, into his native sod. W. L. Hope, of Turnberry, Scotland, was longest-lived of the British entrants; but it was in the second round that Dexter Cummings, intercollegiate champion, did away with...
...Jones Jr. '24 has at last reached that pinnacle of the golfing world to which many have aspired and few have attained, the national amateur championship. By defeating George Von Elm Saturday nine up and eight to play Jones has become National Amateur Champion...
...finals Jones was as invincible as he was in the earlier matches, and Von Elm, who had won his way to the last round easily, was able to take only two holes from the Harvard...