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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last June, no golfer had ever won three Amateur Championships in a row. To win four, Little had to beat 31 opponents straight at match play, most of them in 18-hole matches which, because they do not give the better man long enough to be sure of demonstrating his superiority against the hazards of the game, are the hardest kind. In all 31, he only once had to play off a tie. At Cleveland, last week, he played 156 holes 19 under par, went through the whole tournament without taking more than five strokes on any hole, and made...
...first came in the semifinals, when Little and Johnny Goodman, U. S. Open Champion in 1933, came to the 27th hole. Little and Goodman were roommates at Cleveland's Country Club. It had been a friendly good-natured match in which, while the two joked and chatted their way around the course, Goodman had pulled up to all-even after being 2 clown at the start of the afternoon round. Now, at a short hole, Goodman pitched his tee shot within two feet of the pin for an easy birdie. Little's ball stopped rolling 15 feet from...
...only other moment when Little really seemed to be in danger occurred the next afternoon when he was playing slim 23-year-old Walter Emery of Oklahoma City. Far from friendly, the tone of this match had been set the day before when Emery, not in the least awed by reaching the final of the first Amateur he ever played in, admitted being thoroughly annoyed when Little refused to pose with him for photographers. They finished the morning round all even. Emery sat down in the club house, ordered lunch and arrogantly advised the waiter to "take an aspirin...
...thus expressed last month the gist of expert opinion on the U. S. Singles Championship, flatly contradicted himself at Forest Hills, N. Y. last week. When Allison and Fred Perry, world's No. 1 amateur tennist for the past two years, started to rally before their match in the semifinals, the crowd dubiously hoped that Allison would be able to do as well as he had a year ago, when he carried Perry to five sets. No one expected him to do more. When they left the court an hour later, Allison had become the first player to beat...
...happened to Perry in the seventh game of the first set. The first rally in that game ended when Perry fell flat on his face chasing a drive he could not reach. When he got up, he grinned to indicate that he was not hurt but thereafter throughout the match he was noticeably slower than usual, often put his hand to his side in a gesture of pain. After the match, doctors said he had a displaced kidney. Perry refused to comment on his injury, said, "I've had a licking coming to me for a long time," consoled...