Word: jesse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jess Willard with Bill Dowdy and Pete Zouch, one of the stars of last year's Freshman team, has moved to midfield, the present strength of which is still uncertain...
Three Little Words (Commodore Music Shop, 52nd Street, Manhattan). Newest and one of the ablest of hot chamber-music combinations-Jess Stacy (piano), Bud Freeman (saxophone), George Wet-tling (drums)-does an old one. Two Stacy choruses in the middle are notably imaginative...
Participating players, almost a Who's Who of topflight U. S. jammers, included Clarinetists Joe Marsala, Milton Mesirow, Peewee Russell; Saxophonists Bud Freeman, Sid Bechet; Cornetists Bobby Hackett, Hotlips Paige; Pianist Jess Stacey; Trombonist Tommy Dorsey; Drummers Dave Tough and Zutty Singleton. Present also were No. 1 Swing Pundit Hugues Panassié, grey-haired Blues-writer William Christopher Handy (St.Louis Blues, Memphis Blues). This prime assortment of talent bumped slightly at the takeoff, but in the final ensemble lived up to its big names...
Habit. Most Britons, however, were ready to concede victory to any member of the U. S. team because of the team's disturbing habit of taking home the British Amateur trophy almost every time it has come to Great Britain. Jess Sweetser did it in 1926, Bobby Jones in 1930, Lawson Little in 1934. With this unpleasant precedent in mind, a British sportswriter said he hoped the sight of the black & white shoes and the southern drawls of the U. S. players would not send the British scores zooming into the 80s as they had done three times before...
...first to congratulate Champion Yates was his roommate, Johnny Goodman. Although he had hoped to add the British Amateur to his collection of cups, Johnny Goodman was not hopeless. Bobby Jones, too, had been eliminated before the semi-finals in the 1926 British Amateur which his Walker Cup teammate Jess Sweetser finally won. In fact, Bobby Jones failed three times before finally winning it in 1930, the year he made his famed "Grand Slam" (British Amateur, British Open, U. S. Amateur, U. S. Open). Goodman could still try for the British Open next month to prove that he is currently...