Word: olin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Walter Hagen: the Western Open golf championship, for the fifth time, at Cleveland. Finishing his last round in a high wind, Hagen was three strokes behind Olin Dutra, who was playing with him, at the 15th hole. He got two birdies for a 70 and the 287 that beat Dutra by one stroke...
There was a great deal to discuss. The Fresh Meadow Course, well-trapped, tricky but comparatively honest, has bent-grass greens that are molded in sly ridges. In addition to this, a high wind blew through the first two rounds. A big California!!, Olin Dutra, had the low score ? 69 ? the first day but everyone said that the man to watch when the wind blew was dark, grinning Jose Jurado of the Argentine, favorite professional of the Prince of Wales, who was playing in his first U. S. Open. Wiry little Jurado hits his shots with an extraordinarily...
...Hoover, 41 years White House usher (whose "consideration of others is unfailing"). Other nominees: Novelist Benjamin Kittredge; Artist Olin Dows soft-drawling Lawyer Frank Lyon Polk, Wilsonian Undersecretary of State; Lawyer George Woodward Wickersham; Justice Harlan Fiske Stone; Actor George Arliss...
...audience this season has waited with more curiosity to read the criticisms in next day's papers. How would the big German please Critic Lawrence Gilman, sitting languid and aloof on the left side of the house? How would spare, dry William James Henderson react to him? Or Olin Downes, sitting a few rows behind Henderson? Gilman went to the Herald Tribune office, wrote poetically of the program's "deathless" beauty, praised Walter as "a conductor of secure and confident musicianship, of rare artistic integrity, of refreshing modesty and simplicity of attitude." Henderson let his Sun readers believe that things...
...list of qualifiers for the $7,500 Open Match Play Championship at Lake Merced near San Francisco, last week, were most of the best known U. S. golfing names-Billy Burke, Sarazen, Horton Smith, Cox, Diegel, Von Elm, Kirkwood, Golden, Olin Dutra and two San Francisco Espinosas, Romie and Henry, less famous than their brothers Abe and Al. Johnny Farrell had given up golf for a honeymoon. P. G. A. Champion Tom Creavy was there but he had a bad knee. Tommy Armour failed to show up. Walter Hagen, Amateur Johnny Dawson, Aubrey Boomer (British pro from St. Cloud, France...