Word: golf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best pool player in town. He could throw a baseball so fast it became invisible. He pitched for the St. Patrick's Church team and went south for a tryout with the Boston Braves. A big-time football coach saw him and sent him to preparatory school. Golf was Bull Moore's forte. His brother Harold, a church organist, was also a golf professional and had taught Bull the game. Bull would drive a ball out of sight and make any kind of trick shot with any kind of club. His short game was eccentric...
...time Montague had been around Hollywood for a year or two, he was sharing a house with fat Comedian Oliver Hardy whom he could lift with one hand. He golfed with celebrities like Bing Crosby, and joined the Lakeside Club where the rumor was that he amused the members one day by standing husky Cinemactor George Bancroft on his head in his locker and closing the door. Through his social success, John Montague retained his peculiar shyness. Whence he came or where he got his money, he told no one. His friends were either too afraid or polite...
Surest way to attract attention anywhere is to appear to shun it. In Hollywood, where attention is the population's bread & butter, this technique is doubly infallible. And what Montague did on golf courses would have brought him notoriety anywhere whether he shunned...
First public notice of Montague's golf was written two years ago by famed Sportswriter Grantland Rice. Sportswriter Rice heard that Montague had, 1) played Crosby using a baseball bat, a rake and a shovel and beaten him, 2) broken the course record at Palm Springs four days in a row, with a 61 the last day, 3) picked a bird off a telegraph wire with a golf ball at 170 yards, 4) been called by onetime U. S. Amateur Champion George Von Elm, who had played with him daily for a month, the "greatest golfer in the world...
...truth about John Montague came out last week but not on a golf course. It came out in Los Angeles County Jail where he was taken after being arrested because his fingerprints matched those of La Verne ("Bull") Moore...