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Haled into a Los Angeles court to explain a debt of $292.10, huge Jess Willard, onetime heavyweight boxing champion, told a municipal referee that he was working for about $15 a week as a bouncer in a meat market he once owned. He had himself photographed ejecting a tiny newshawk. Later he confessed: "That's all a joke about my being a bouncer. There's nothing to bounce around here except pieces of meat. I'm manager here. . . . Can't tell you my salary but it's a lot more than $15 weekly. Why that...
...holes. Qualifying score was 152. The player who looks so much like Woodrow Wilson, defending champion Francis Ouimet, barely saved himself in the last seven holes to qualify with a 151. All the British Walker Cup team but one were eliminated, as were three former titleholders, Jess Sweetser, Max Marston, Harrison Johnston. Perry Hall, 37-year-old Drexel & Co. partner who first played golf six years ago, tied for third at 145. In 36 holes he had no 3-putt greens...
...British Amateur champion, did very little better. They lost to Gus Moreland (in vited to join the U. S. team while he was winning the Western Amateur last fort night) and huge Charlie Seaver (Stanford footballer, who plays golf because his father wants him to) on the 31st green. Jess Sweetser and George Voigt beat the Hartley brothers, Rex and Lister, 7 & 6, after Rex Hartley had admitted being made bloodydamnedmad by one of Sweetser's drives which started out of bounds, hit a tree, bounced back toward the green. The closest match of the day ended on the 32nd...
...Frederick Herendeen; Charles H. Abramson and Jess Smith, producers). In a lonely house in Florida's Everglades a demented professor (William Ingersoll) grows a gigantic spider. He is assisted by a Japanese butler (Harold deBecker) who wants the formula to grow big Japanese. Into this setting presently appear all the characters requisite for mystery melodrama: two escaped murderers, two pursuing officers, a golden-hearted lad of the swamps who doubts his fitness to marry the professor's niece because his father "has snake's blood in his veins," a reporter for the Associated Press, an eloquent thunderstorm...
...that the British Amateur golf championship takes a lot of luck. The elimination match rounds are only 18 holes, giving any unknown with one good round in his system a chance to knock over a celebrity. Only three U. S. golfers have ever won it: Walter Travis in 1904; Jess Sweetser in 1926, reeling with fever in a final against a player who did not know how to use a brassie; and Robert Tyre Jones II in 1930, beating down luck with mechanical golf...