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...Lord Tilbury, looking down, saw that a portion of her afternoon meal, in the shape of an appetizing potato, had been dislodged from the main convert and had rolled out of bounds. It was this that was causing the silver medalist's distress and despondency. Like all prize pigs who take their career seriously, Empress of Blandings hated to miss anything that might be eaten and converted into firm flesh...
Five Farms is a medium-length course -6,622 yd. It is more famed for beauty than stiffness. Johnny Fischer, lanky 6-ft. University of Michigan junior, this year's intercollegiate champion, broke the course record with a 69 on the first day, was medalist with a 142 for the 36 holes. Qualifying score was 152. The player who looks so much like Woodrow Wilson, defending champion Francis Ouimet, barely saved himself in the last seven holes to qualify with a 151. All the British Walker Cup team but one were eliminated, as were three former titleholders, Jess Sweetser...
While Ouimet was squeezing into the semi-finals for the ninth time in his career by trimming Medalist Fischer with a 12-ft. putt on the last hole, another Bostonian, giant Jesse Guilford, was eliminating Chick Evans, title-holder in 1916 and 1920, 5 & 4. Ross Somerville defeated Boston's William O. Blaney 6 & 5 and Johnny Goodman, who unexpectedly whipped Bobby Jones in the first round at Pebble Beach in 1929, put out Maurice McCarthy...
Even when Medalist Orcutt and U. S. Champion Helen Hicks lost their first round matches (TIME, June 6) three of the ablest women players in the U. S. were left in the tournament. But Glenna Collett Vare lost to the defending champion, Enid Wilson, while Virginia Van Wie was getting beaten by Susie Tolhurst, champion of Australia, in an amazing match that ended on the 210-yd. 19th hole. Miss Van Wie took 8 to her opponent's 6. That left only Mrs. Leona Pressler Cheney of Los Angeles, who started to play golf seven years ago when...
When the 18-hole elimination match play began, the U. S. ranks were decimated at blind random. One of the first to fall was Medalist Orcutt, 2 & 1 before a Miss Jean Hamilton...