Word: knepper
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...medal-winning 143, which included a 70 composed of 16 pars and two birdies. One George Craig Jr. of Pittsburgh handed in a score that averaged a flat two strokes a hole more than Jones. Between these two came a discrepant assortment of gentlemen, from slow-moving little Rudolph Knepper, onetime Princeton captain, with 147, to wavering, uncertain Watts Gunn (Bobby Jones's Atlanta playmate"), who just managed to qualify with a second round of 83 after a bad first round of 80. A certain George Von Elm of Los Angeles was down the list...
...swamped; B. E. Stein of Seattle capitulated on the 31st hole of the finals. The headliners were ignored: Keefe Carter (last year's champion) was eliminated in the second round: Chick Evans (seeking his ninth Western title) fell before Arthur Tveraa, 19 year old Minneapolis player; Rudy Knepper went as far as the semifinals...
...still they fell in those first and second rounds: deliberate Rudolph Knepper, demon putter of recent Princeton teams, before one L. L. Bredin of Detroit; Chick Evans, onetime monarch of the West, before L. E. Bunning, stout-hearted Chicago business man; James Manion and then Eddie Held, the prides of St. Louis, before Keefe' Carter, Oklahoma boy-champion...
...medalist was verified when he won the open title. Last week, golfdom's shadow of doubt about him as a match-player was dissipated when he beat W. T. Thompson (Canadian champion) 6 and 5; D. C. Corkran (Gold Mashie winner, tournament medalist) 3 and 2; R. E. Knepper (onetime Princetonian, demon putter) 6 and 4; Francis Ouimet (onetime amateur and open champion, clockwork putter, inexorable match-player) 11 and 10; then...
Rudolph E. Knepper, Sioux City...