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...Willie Macfarlane, 43-year-old Scotch golf professional who beat Bobby Jones in a play-off for the Open in 1925 and has lately been so discouraged by his putting that he contemplated retiring: the Metropolitan Open, with 291 for four rounds; at Mamaroneck, N. Y. Olin Dutra, defending champion, made a hole-in-one on his third round, came in fourth with...
Accused. It was Lawyer Chamlee who supplied Defendant Patterson with the horseshoe, at his request. The other defendants-Clarence Norris, Charlie Weems, Olin Montgomery, Andy Wright, Willie Robertson, Ozie Powell-thought rabbits' feet would "make them sleep easier." The two minors, Roy Wright (Andy's brother) and Eugene Williams, held in prison for two years as material witnesses, got rabbits' feet...
...Gene Sarazen, holder of the U. S. and British Open Golf Championships: a 72-hole match against Olin Dutra, U. S. professional champion, for the "unofficial championship of the world"; score: 11 up, 10 to play; at Coral Gables...
...Paul was the Professional Golfers' Association championship, hardest match-play tournament in the world to win, for which British & U. S. Open Champion Gene Sarazen failed to qualify three weeks ago. Ponderous Olin Dutra who looks like Jack Dempsey and handles his putter like an elephant with a teaspoon, won the medal with 140. His brother Mortie, Johnny Farrell, Mike Turnesa, Abe Espinosa, Walter Kozak, Tommy Armour and last year's Open champion, Billy Burke, were all over the play-off score?153. The first round was memorable for two tremendous matches which passed the record set when Chick Evans...
...looked as though slim Tom Creavy, last year's winner, would play Olin Dutra for the title but Creavy, when he had squared his semi-final match with Frank Walsh of Chicago on the 36th, after being 9 down in the morning round, missed an important five-foot putt on the 38th. Dutra, who had coasted through the tournament, played Walsh in the finals. In California, where he and his brother learned to play on an improvised course between two trees in a meadow, Dutra is known for his steadiness, his diligence on practice tees. His short swing is especially...