Word: oakmont
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the fortitude of men who have sown for other men's reaping the greens-gang of Oakmont Country Club (Pittsburgh) last week laid away mower, mattock and weeding knife. Their work was ready for its demolition. "One of the most difficult golf courses in the world" lay clipped, combed and manicured for the qualifying salvos the National Amateur Championship...
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...
...succeed the retiring President J. Frederick Byers, a brother of E. M. Byers, who was National Amateur Champion in 1906. The two Vice Presidents slated are Robert A. Gardner of the Ontwensia Club, Chicago, National Champion in 1909 and 1915, and William C. Fownes, Jr., of the Oakmont Club, Pittsburgh National Champion...