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There was a great deal to discuss. The Fresh Meadow Course, well-trapped, tricky but comparatively honest, has bent-grass greens that are molded in sly ridges. In addition to this, a high wind blew through the first two rounds. A big California!!, Olin Dutra, had the low score ? 69 ? the first day but everyone said that the man to watch when the wind blew was dark, grinning Jose Jurado of the Argentine, favorite professional of the Prince of Wales, who was playing in his first U. S. Open. Wiry little Jurado hits his shots with an extraordinarily...
Sarazen, favorite in the betting before the tournament, had been six strokes behind the leaders after playing the first nine holes of his third round in 38. By coming in in 32 and starting his last round with another 32?incredibly low scoring for Fresh Meadow even without a wind?he had made his job much easier but it was still hard to believe that he would win. It became less difficult with every hole. Sarazen had pars for the first five holes of the second nine, a birdie 3 on the hard 15th. When he missed his putt...
...champion in 1928, he said: "Oh, boy, am I excited! . . . How are they taking it in New York?" Two days later, carrying the British Open Cup which he said he would defend next year, Sarazen sailed for the U. S. to play in the U. S. Open at Fresh Meadow Country Club, Flushing, L. I., his home course from...
...some degree of perfection is not a peculiar form of conceit. . . . To me it is Religion. The other people you have written to will have clearly expressed answers. . . . I wish I could see George Bernard Shaw's. He once told me that tennis should be played in a meadow, with grass a foot high, and with no balls...
...Last Armistice Day was splendidly cele brated in this town. A nearby hilly and wooded meadow was chosen to enact a sham attack on an imaginary position. Real machine guns swept No-Man's-Land with continuous fire and cunningly placed bombs exploded at the right time. The attacking forces to a man won their objective and the thousands of spectators were thrilled by their exploit until some youngsters broke from the crowd and proceeded to imitate them, while the unavailing efforts of a private in khaki to send them back produced roars of laughter from the onlookers. If more...