Word: locker-room
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...best way to win an Open Golf Championship is to sit in the locker-room. No one knows this better than Thomas Philip Perkins, British amateur champion in 1928, runner-up to Bobby Jones for the U. S. amateur the same year. Month ago Perkins became dissatisfied with his job in a Manhattan brokerage company. He announced that he would become a professional golfer, set out to get himself a position by doing well in the U. S. Open at Flushing, L. I., last week. After the second round he was tied for the lead with 69,76-145. After...
...this Perkins well knew last week as he sat in the locker-room sipping his beer. He knew also that the only men he really had to fear were Cruickshank and Sara zen. Hagen had blown up in the morning. Dutra had taken an 8 at the 15th. Jurado, Diegel and Cox had finished with higher scores than his. But Cruickshank and Sarazen were still out on the course. Cruickshank reached the turn in 33 and Sarazen in 32. Cruickshank needed a 68 for the round to tie and Sarazen needed 69. They were playing against the worst hazard...
...shots with almost resentful determination. On the 16th, he missed an 8-ft. putt and needed two pars for his 68. He got them smoothly on the next two holes. Then he walked briskly through the gallery that was waiting to see Sarazen finish and joined Perkins in the locker-room...
...Baseball is a swell way to make a living," said Art (The Great) Shires, in an interview while putting on his clothes in the locker-room after a recent Braves victory, "but I intend to go to Law School as soon as I've had my fling at the game. I guarantee that I can make three times as much money and meet twice as many people by playing baseball for ten years than a man who goes to school immediately and begins to practice law for ten years...
...modest collection of etchings, a wife who sculps from time to time in a MacDougall Alley studio. He is jovial with acquaintances. He plays excellent poker with fierce intensity. As a golfer, he is never more dangerous to his opponent than when behind. He has a large collection of locker-room anecdotes...