Word: merion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fred Lamprecht, giant blond tackle of Tulane University's noted football team, last week at the Merion Cricket Club duplicated the record of Dexter Cummings by winning the intercollegiate golf championship for the second successive year. Spectators applauded when Lamprecht stopped Paul Haviland of Yale in the morning round by a putt for a 2 on the 13th. Some spectators were amazed when Haviland was eliminated in the afternoon round by a putt for a 2 on the 13th. Other blase watchers recalled that last year at Montclair Lamprecht defeated Jack Westland of Washington University 9-7 by means...
Five men on the University tennis team will make the trip to Haverford, Pa., at the end of next week, in order to compete for the Intercollegiate Lawn Tennis Championship. The tournament will be held on the grass courts of the Merion Cricket Club, beginning on June...
Lounging about the tool-house, like their near relations who sweep circus rings between acts, the Oakmont gangsters watched early arrivals take trial gouges here and there in the 6,860-yard course. An early comer was George Von Elm of Los Angeles, runner-up last year at the Merion Cricket Club (Philadelphia) to Champion Bobby Jones. Deliberation writ upon his countenance and grim revenge, Von Elm played four rounds, including a 72 with a 7 in it, then took Mrs. Von Elm over to Manhattan where he bided his hour...
...with his adolescence. He and his young companion, Perry Adair, were astonishing the senior members of Druid Hills (Atlanta) where they both wore short trousers even to parties. Jones was but 14 when he led a field of the country's ablest for half a qualifying round at the Merion Cricket Club (Philadelphia). The beating he gave Gardner at Oakmont three years later was payment for a budnipping that occurred in the third round of that Merion affair. Francis Ouimet administered the budnipping at the Engineers' Club (Roslyn, L. I.) in 1920, Willie Hunter at St. Louis in 1921, Jess...
...whether Captain Ingraham and Captain-elect Whitbeck succeed in defeating Jones and Watson of Yale, when the encounter takes place next week on the courts of the Merion Cricket Club at Philadelphia in the week of June 22, depends the final outcome of this year's tennis season, but in either event the season can be pronounced as successful...