Word: oakmont
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good green-gangsters who manicured, shampooed and mud-massaged the course of the Oakmont Country Club (Pittsburgh) for the last week's National! Amateur Golf Championship were exceptional fellows. They entertained a lively interest in the sport. They knew all about Robert Tyre Jones, Jr.-may even have known, indeed that his father, a Georgia lawyer, is associated in business with William Gunn, father of Watts Gunn, the 20-year old youth whom Jones brought North to the tournament to "get some experience in championship play...
...waiters at the Oakmont Club, on the other hand, knew little, or cared less about Jones, nor had they if the truth were known any high regard for the game of golf. They had heard too many members play around "one of the most difficult courses in the country," stroke by stroke, over their meals, to be enthusiastic. What though Von Elm, Jess Sweetser, Guilford, Mackensie and the rest had come to compete in the National Amateur? The waiters asked questions about the Shenandoah (See Page 31); they interested themselves in the acrobatics of dice and the scores of distant...
...gangsters could place Von Elm. Until last year his activities in the East had been infrequent and unobtrusive. But Robert Tyre Jones Jr. they remembered well indeed, the chubby Buster Brown of 17 from Atlanta, Ga., who qualified so brilliantly in the amateur championship of 1919 at Oakmont and blazed through his matches to the very final. Two former champions had sickened at that fell onslaught, tall Bob Gardner of Chicago and seasoned Walter Fownes of the home club, and only with difficulty did ponderous Dave Herron at last fix a damper on the ardent cherub, who swore and flung...
...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 Sweetser at Brookline, Mass., in 1922 (harshest ever...
Aware that this change had come over their young friend, also that he was married, a parent, and in the banking business with Perry Adair's father's firm in Atlanta, the good greens-gangsters awaited with eagerness his return to Oakmont. His divots would they gladly pat into place, and the divots of many another, that his defense of his title might be impeded by no fault in their husbandry. The fault in their husbandry. The talk that they heard ran sometimes on other young men, besides the perennial headliners, who might give him unexpectedly stern treatment: stocky Fred...