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...hour later, Elena, a 137-footer, sailed across the finish line to capture the King's cup for Class A yachts. Her sailing time was 16 days, 21 hours.* Miss Helen G. Bell, daughter of the Elena's owner, wrote a seaworthy account of the voyage for the New York Times. She told of one rough afternoon and night: "The ship heeled over until the lee rail was awash and now and then as she shipped seas over the stern the water raced down the scuppers. "When I turned in for the night the sky was covered with ominous black...
...holed out in two, while Harrison R. ("Jimmie") Johnston, winner of the qualifying medal with a brilliant 141 and favorite to capture the Western Amateur title at St. Paul, missed a two-foot putt. On the 18th green Johnston's putter again faltered. He missed a six-footer and enabled Dolp to square the match. Johnston repeated with a two-foot miss on the extra hole, was eliminated. Dolp then sailed on easily to his first Western Amateur Championship-Chuck Hunter defaulted to him; collegian Kenneth Hisert ("Big Ten" winner) was swamped; B. E. Stein of Seattle capitulated...
They had hardly set off when he flicked his putter, just so, and his ball found its way across 70 feet of turf into the cup. Jones had back at him in a few minutes with a 30-footer, which Hagen parried instantly from seven paces ? a "half" in birdy 2's. This sort of thing continued until lunch was served, and Hagen...
...Alexa Stirling, three time national champion, long ago demonstrated that Atlanta, Ga., is the nation's most important hatchery of championship golfers, a fact recently iterated by Robert T. Jones and Watts Gunn. She knew, therefore, the importance of putting. Had it not been for a 70-footer on the first hole, and a 40-footer later on the same hole (played as the 19th), she might not have got past Louise Fordyce of Youngstown, Ohio, to play against Miss Collett...
...Manhattan, Gabrielle (Mrs. John De Fuller), "The World's Only Half- Woman," famed circus horror, sideshow spectacle, born without legs, height 2 ft. 8 in., weight 128 lb., disappeared from her home. Her husband, "a strapping six-footer," was positive she had not been kidnapped, did not think she had eloped, was baffled...