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...case of a tie, what happens? Well, that's a tough one. We would be only too glad to give more than one set of Annie Oakley's. Unfortunately, that's impossible. We will, therefore, have to give preference to the early birds...
...first day of the New England Intercollegiate golf tournament the four high Harvard representatives made a good showing yesterday at the Oakley Country Club. Bob Sides led the Crimson quartet over the 18 holes with a 73. Donald Prouty registered a 78, F. I. Olsen a 79, and Arnold S. Litman 31. Harvard now leads the large field with a collective score of 311. Holy Cross, yet to play, is expected to do better...
Four miles from St. Francisville. in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, there is an imposing, three-story plantation house called Oakley, built in 1810 by James Pirrie and still inhabited by his descendants. There, in the summer of 1821, a 35-year-old wandering painter named John James Audubon arrived to teach French and painting to 16-year-old Eliza Pirrie. It was almost his first good fortune. He got $60 a month, had his afternoons free, could study to his heart's content the varied bird life of West Feliciana...
...Thurs.--Headquarters, Holworthy 19. Dinner at Oakley Country Club, Watertown at 7.30 P. M. Fri.--Headquarters, Holworthy...
...book abounds in tall tales, wreaths of reminiscence, diverting digressions. Of Annie Oakley, famed deadshot of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, he records that she was extremely stingy, never took so much as a beer unless someone else paid for it; that the bullets she used in her act were explosive, scattered the shot so that misses were rare. Death Valley Scotty, broncobuster, was such a glutton for chocolate creams that he ate them while his mount was cutting capers. Buffalo Bill stuck religiously to his temperance pledge except in his native State of Nebraska: there all bets...