Word: morrises
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"routine business," another man might call extraordinary exertion. Long, closely-written technical papers were read on city planning, surveys, irrigation, highways, topography, etc. Among the notables present were Engineers Morris Knowles of Pittsburgh (city planner), President Arthur E. Morgan of Antioch College (flood control specialist), President George S. Davison of...
Fifty-seven years ago, the cathedral town of St. Andrews, Scotland, went daft over a youth of 19 whose serious face was just beginning to sprout the mutton-chop whiskers then in fashion. His name was Tom Morris Jr. With his long-necked clubs, lumpy balls and tarn o'shanter...
In 1872, a championship cup was donated. Tom Morris Jr., his whiskers now fully and handsomely grown, went again to Prestwick and won the first leg on the cup. Scottish golfers were dismayed but cheerful. What could you do against the son and pupil of old Tom Morris, who had...
...Kidd, Mungo Park and Willie Park Sr. managed to overcome the Morrises the next three years. And then, on Christmas Day, 1875, Tom Morris Jr. died, aged but 24. Tom Morris Sr. lived on, but never again was a Morris champion. St. Andrews "canonized" the pair of them and erected a statue of Tom Morris Jr. making an iron shot. The statue's legend reads: "Sure...
Golf spread and changed after 1875. Champions rose and fell. Harry Vardon won the British Open six times; J. H. Taylor and James Braid, five times each. But they were grown men before they became golf masters, and the few youngsters that flashed into prominence from time to time winked...