Word: ouimet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brookline, Mass, is the country club where, in 1913, when he was 20, Francis Ouimet tied famed Harry Vardon and Ted Ray in his first U. S. Open championship, then beat them both in a momentous playoff. Francis Ouimet does a lot of his golfing at the Brookline club but it was for another momentous match against British golfers that he was there again last week. As U. S. Amateur Champion he had been made captain of the U. S. Walker Cup Team...
Play began with Scotch (two-ball) foursomes. Paired with slim young George T. Dunlap Jr. against the crack British pair of long-driving John Stout and John Burke, champion of Ireland who signs his first name "Sean," Ouimet's putting helped his partner win four of the first five holes. The match was over at the 30th, with Ouimet & Dunlap 7 up. Captain Thomas Arthur ("Tony") Torrance of the British team and John De Forest, British Amateur champion, did very little better. They lost to Gus Moreland (in vited to join the U. S. team while he was winning...
...singles next day were a pleasant formality. Low score of the day ? George Dunlap's 66, while he was beating Eric McRuvie, 10 & 9 ? was a new record for Walker Cup play. When Ouimet was 3 up with 8 to play against Torrance it looked as if he were sure to even matters for the 7 & 6 beating that Torrance gave him two years ago but Torrance got a 2 on the 30th and played beautiful golf to halve the match. Two other matches ? Burke v. Westland and Stout v. Sweet ser ? ended all-even after...
...Francis Ouimet: his first golf tournament since winning the U. S. Amateur at Chicago last summer; the Massachusetts Open, at Osterville; with 287, one stroke better than a crack field which included Bobby Cruickshank, Wiffy Cox, Johnny Farrell...
...same meeting, the U. S. G. A. selected Francis Ouimet to captain the Walker Cup team; selected Marion Hollins to captain the women's team which will play in England next spring; decided to hold the Open Championship at Fresh Meadow Country Club, L. I. June 23 to 25 and the Amateur at Baltimore Country Club, Sept...