Word: elm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...days of jumping on a streetcar and going down to a fire on Elm Street are not passed yet for newspaper reporters, but reporters nowadays have to be equipped for many other jobs as well. Two news stories that "broke" last week show the emergencies with which reporters have to cope...
...cared less about Jones, nor had they if the truth were known any high regard for the game of golf. They had heard too many members play around "one of the most difficult courses in the country," stroke by stroke, over their meals, to be enthusiastic. What though Von Elm, Jess Sweetser, Guilford, Mackensie and the rest had come to compete in the National Amateur? The waiters asked questions about the Shenandoah (See Page 31); they interested themselves in the acrobatics of dice and the scores of distant baseball teams...
Lounging about the tool-house, like their near relations who sweep circus rings between acts, the Oakmont gangsters watched early arrivals take trial gouges here and there in the 6,860-yard course. An early comer was George Von Elm of Los Angeles, runner-up last year at the Merion Cricket Club (Philadelphia) to Champion Bobby Jones. Deliberation writ upon his countenance and grim revenge, Von Elm played four rounds, including a 72 with a 7 in it, then took Mrs. Von Elm over to Manhattan where he bided his hour...
...gangsters idly wondered how Von Elm had liked the way they had drawn some of the already-retiring tees still further back. How had he liked the look of that shaggy carry to the sixth green, or that oblique yawn in the eighth fairway that it took 450 tons of sand to fill? Had he often made a more perilous march than down the 601-yard twelfth, where they had smoothed the deep bunkers to dissemble innocence and the far pin retreated like a mirage...
...many of the gangsters could place Von Elm. Until last year his activities in the East had been infrequent and unobtrusive. But Robert Tyre Jones Jr. they remembered well indeed, the chubby Buster Brown of 17 from Atlanta, Ga., who qualified so brilliantly in the amateur championship of 1919 at Oakmont and blazed through his matches to the very final. Two former champions had sickened at that fell onslaught, tall Bob Gardner of Chicago and seasoned Walter Fownes of the home club, and only with difficulty did ponderous Dave Herron at last fix a damper on the ardent cherub...