Word: holderness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...faced dogmatists had apparently forgotten that the holder of the title in dispute was one William Mehlhorn of Chicago. It is true that he stood well down the list with a 74, but he has a champion's nerves. He is at his best under pressure. He began to play with the desperate efficiency of a man defending his pride. In the last round he went out in the increditable score of 32, came in with a 34 to tie the course record, But the best his gallant effort could get him was second place. His title had been...
...holder of the barbecue concession on the courthouse lawn builds up his fire and heaves half an ox on the coals. The field secretary of an anti-Evolution society picks his teeth and adds a note or two of his stock harangue, delivered thrice daily: "Shall we be taxed to damn our children?" An evangelist-bookseller looks proudly up at his billboards: HELL AND THE HIGH SCHOOLS, GOD OR GORILLA, BRYAN'S BOOKS FOR SALE HERE...
...Wimbledon. The All-England Tennis Tournament gathered net notables to Wimbledon and the fun began. Who were the stars ? Jean Borotra of France, present holder of the championship; J. O. Anderson of Australia, long a Davis Cup player ; Suzanne Lenglen of France trying again; Miss Elizabeth Ryan of California. The leading men in the U. S. delegation there were Roy Casey of California and John Hennessey of Indiana. Belgium, Holland, India, Germany, Greece were among the other nations represented...
...Fischer, intercollegiate Champion in 1923. Fuller Sherman, Albert Gillis and Henry Orbst; Butler University of Indianapolis represented by Julius Sagalowsky, former Junior and boy champion of the Middle West and Irving Kurzrock, Stanford University of California is understood to be sending on Cranston man, former Municipal singles and present holder with partner of the Muncipal National Doubles Championship...
George Binney (leader of the 1924 Oxford arctic flight, holder of the furthest north flying record-N. L. 80 deg., 15 min.) : "He will stroll back to Europe, I have little doubt...