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...years ago that Walter J. Travis, a young man from Australia, became known as Golfer Travis in the U. S. In 1897 he showed promise. In 1898 he was runner-up in the national amateur championship, and again in 1899. In 1900 and 1901 he was medalist and winner of the national amateur. In 1902 he tied for second in the national open, and won the amateur medal a third time in succession. He was amateur champion again in 1903, and in 1904 did what no nonresident of the British Isles had ever done, won the British amateur championship...
Disregarding the superstition which dictates early disaster to the medalist, Mr. Voight proceeded to play through the tournament proper in form highly satisfactory to himself. In the finals he met Eugene Homans, 18, Englewood, N. J., schoolboy; triumphed, 4 and 2; added the name of Voight to the list of onetime caddies* who have made good...
Professor P. W. Bridgeman '04. Rumford medalist, and a physicist famous for his research in high pressure, is at present working on the viscosity of mercury but stated, when asked whether he had subjected any atoms to hydraulic compression that he had limited his activities in this field to pressure of many tons upon single metal crystals: At Yale, a pressure physicist has succeeded in making a fat square atom into a long thin atom by means of a pile driver, but the significance of his experiment has not thrilled the scientific world...
Theodore William Richards, Harvard '86, "foremost chemist in the U. S. university world," Nobel Laureate (1914), Davy medalist (1910), Faraday medalist (1911), Franklin, Gibbs and LeBlanc medalist, is still active at Harvard. Hammond Lamont was a classmate of Richards, himself distinguished in scholarship and undergraduate journalism...
...known that some such scene was inevitable, sooner or later. Ever since his first try for the championship (1916, also at Merion), Jones had stood close to the head of the title-waiting line. Last year golfdom's estimate of him as the leading U. S. amateur 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...