Word: golfs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mills of the gods of golf ground out some long-awaited grist. After eight fairly patient years of waiting, Robert Tyre Jones Jr., of Atlanta, last week won the national amateur championship...
...plot of the comedy, which is having its first showing before metropolitan audiences, is simple. William Augustus Jones, employed as a copywriter in the Carver Advertising Agency, conceives the idea that the only way to get on in business is to build up acquaintances on the golf course, and to swing big deals at the nineteenth hole. His plans for an advertising campaign fail to please Mr. Wilson, the manager of a giant soap factory, who takes his business away from the Carver Agency...
William Augustus, however, accepts an invitation from Wilson's attractive daughter, and hopes to retrieve his fortunes by spending the week end on the golf links with the aggrieved advertiser. He meets with indifferent success, as it is his first attack on a golf course, but he does have a chance to make a favorable impression on the daughter. Everything is straightened out at the end with the help of Jones' much improved golf game, and of a rival soup magnate who likes William's advertising plans...
This victory, coupled with his winning of the National Open Golf Championship last year, establishes Jones as one of America's four greatest golfers, there being three other men who have accomplished both feats, Francis Oulmet, Jerome Travers, and Charles "Chick" Evans...
Throughout the tournament Jones played remarkable golf, in fact he seemed to be playing better every day. In the qualifying round he was second with a score of 144. In the first round he put out William Thompson, onetime champion of Canada, by the score of 6 and 5. In the second round he eliminated Clarke Cochrah, who had been breaking course records right and left, 3 and 2. The third man to succumb to Jones' superior golf was Rudolph Knipper, old Princeton star. He was defeated...