Word: ouimet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lanky 6-ft. University of Michigan junior, this year's intercollegiate champion, broke the course record with a 69 on the first day, was medalist with a 142 for the 36 holes. Qualifying score was 152. The player who looks so much like Woodrow Wilson, defending champion Francis Ouimet, barely saved himself in the last seven holes to qualify with a 151. All the British Walker Cup team but one were eliminated, as were three former titleholders, Jess Sweetser, Max Marston, Harrison Johnston. Perry Hall, 37-year-old Drexel & Co. partner who first played golf six years ago, tied...
When the tougher grind of match play began the next day, the younger golfers suffered retribution for their medal performances. Ouimet, playing like an auto-matic stoker, put out George Voigt 6 & 5. Voigt was one under par for the first nine holes - and 4 down. Ouimet had played the nine in 30. A young Yale player, Sidney W. Noyes, pressed Ouimet in the afternoon but was put out 1 down...
...While Ouimet was squeezing into the semi-finals for the ninth time in his career by trimming Medalist Fischer with a 12-ft. putt on the last hole, another Bostonian, giant Jesse Guilford, was eliminating Chick Evans, title-holder in 1916 and 1920, 5 & 4. Ross Somerville defeated Boston's William O. Blaney 6 & 5 and Johnny Goodman, who unexpectedly whipped Bobby Jones in the first round at Pebble Beach in 1929, put out Maurice McCarthy...
...Walker Cup team. Sports writers thought he had been omitted because he once worked in a sporting-goods store. He entered the tournament with a grudge to settle. Without fanfare he polished off Walker Cupsters Seaver and McCarthy. In the semi-finals he drew Walker Cup Captain Ouimet. Francis Ouimet, now 39, had been ill before the championship, had played hard golf to get into the semifinals, and for the first 18 holes of his match, he out-golfed Johnny Goodman. In the afternoon Ouimet was obviously worn out, and Goodman took the match 4 & 2. Despite the driving...
...news of Johnny Goodman's triumph over Ouimet, Omaha went wild with joy, planned a home-coming celebration, whether he won the final or not, for a home boy who had grown up "across the tracks" and made good. Like Ross Somerville he is now an insurance salesman. Somerville inherited an insurance business (plus a fortune) from his father. He had time and opportunity to become an all-round athlete in college (University of Toronto). His golf form was perfected by professionals in Scotland. Johnny Goodman learned as a caddy. Bashful, reticent, Somerville played throughout the tournament with...