Word: elm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...discrepant assortment of gentlemen, from slow-moving little Rudolph Knepper, onetime Princeton captain, with 147, to wavering, uncertain Watts Gunn (Bobby Jones's Atlanta playmate"), who just managed to qualify with a second round of 83 after a bad first round of 80. A certain George Von Elm of Los Angeles was down the list...
Match play began. Von Elm, weak against tall Ellsworth Augustus of Cleveland, barely managed to take the match on the 19th hole. Richard Jones, Massachusetts state champion, pressed Robert Tyre Jones hard before succumbing by one hole. M. B. Stevenson played a family match against long-driving young Roland MacKenzie. Long an intimate of the lad's parents, Mr. Stevenson sent Mrs. MacKenzie Sr. a telegram expressing profound sorrow at having been forced to eliminate her son. Francis Ouimet and Charles Evans, both former title holders, came through the early rounds with ease; they might, if Jones relapsed, meet...
...Elm is a shy, blond man who used to caddy at the country club in Salt Lake City. When he was 15 he won the Utah States championship, playing largely with a mashie-niblick, the only club he really understood. Since then he has often been a finalist, often a local champion. Two years ago in the national finals at Merion, Jones beat...
...giant elm tree, estimated to be over 200 years old, which stood on the Oxford Street side of the Agassiz Museum, crashed to the ground early yesterday morning in the midst of a violent thunder shower. It is believed that the weight of the falling water accompanied by the sharp gust of wind occassioned the downfail of the venerable elm. Yesterday's windfall along with the destruction, of the Washington elm in the same manner last year, marks the passing of the two most remarkable trees in New England...
...various times during the past 50 years, efforts have been made by tree surgeons to prolong the life of the Agassiz elm. In 1910 the giant tree which measured a little less than ten feet in circumference at its base, showed signs of dry not around the roots and the ailing portions were reinforced with cement fillings. Later as the tree continued to lean more and more towards the museum, which was erected in 1901, wire braces were used in an effort to straighten it. The trunk which was badly torn when the tree was partially uprooted was almost completely...