Word: jims
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Swiftest of the big bugs was an eight-armed water-dragonfly from the Pennsylvania Barge Club, stroked by brawny Charles Karle, coached by Jim Juvenal. With four large fellows among them who, the day before, had driven a winning four-armed body, they beat by three-quarters of a length the barge of the Duluth Boat Club...
...violinists in the Egyptian Theatre played another tune. . . . This is a dance hall. A piano with sinus trouble clangs for the twiddling feet of Big Jim McKay, swashbuckling prospector who picks his teeth and his sweethearts with a Colt 44. The tiny mustachioed orphan of the storm beams innocently over the shoulder of McKay's own dearest. . . . Old stuff about an endearing note which Chaplin receives by mistake. . . . Out to make his pile so that he can wed the Klondike Kitty Kelly . . . . More prospectors*. . . . The big strike; the search for the girl; the scene on board the ocean liner...
None pleased; the galleries liked the men from the U. S.?big MacDonald Smith, Joe Kirkwood with the curling smile, Jim Barnes, a long, dour man of little talk and less laughter. Before, behind, around these, the populace of that part of Scotland rowdily trailed, pushing prams, spilling lunch baskets. It was a nuisance to the police and the players...
...Jim Barnes opened with a 70. The crowds were fierce but 'he plowed through for a 77 and was second to Smith at half play. His third round was more plowing, 79. Coming in at the finish, he holed eight consecutive fours, made a 74 to find himself a winner over Taylor, Smith, Ray, Mitchell and even steady Archie Compston of North Manchester, with a score of 300 even. Ray and Compston, tied for second with 301, each missed a putt that would have" tied Barnes at the seventy-second green...
...Long Jim Barnes went off to Cornwall to see his mother. At the Pelham Country Club (N. Y.), the members assured each other that now their former professional had caught up with Jock Hutchinsonf (1922 winner) and gained on Walter Hagen?(1922, '24 winner) in the matter of the British Open Championship...