Word: ouimet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When Ouimet and Westland went out to play the finals on the anniversary of Ouimet's victory in 1914, there was a general feeling that Ouimet would win. Ouimet won the first hole, stood 4 up at the turn. He holed a 15-foot putt on the 14th, missed an 8-foot putt on the 15th, holed a 25-foot putt downhill for a half on the 16th, finished the morning round 5 up. In the afternoon, a strong wind quartered the fairways. Westland left his felt hat in the clubhouse and, apparently more at ease, won the 18th...
...Ouimet was suspended by the United States Golf Association for starting a sporting goods store. This episode was long forgotten last week as Ouimet, now a Boston cotton broker, attributed his victory mainly to "good fortune in having my putts drop. . . ." He had little to say before starting back for Brookline, Mass. Not so his 70-year-old mother Mary E. Ouimet, who, unlike most old ladies, seemed to know something about golf. Said she when she heard...
...Mother Ouimet exaggerates. Not the whole hole, but a sandtrap on it into which Vardon went is called "The Vardon...
...Robert Tyre Jones Jr.; at Agua Caliente, Mexico. Golfer Jones is now performing in Warner Bros, golf talkies. Current rumor about what Jones will do next summer: tour the U. S. in exhibition matches, sponsored by Warner Bros., starting at the Winchester Country Club near Boston with Francis Ouimet as partner...
...that sprawls like an ungainly footprint through three fairways at its north end. Of the 168 entrants, the most important victim of the quarry and the white faces was Harrison Johnston, defending champion. He had a first round of 83. Other good men qualified but slipped out early-Francis Ouimet. T. Philip Perkins, Dr. 0. F. Willing, Johnny Goodman, George Voight. Only one man broke par in the first qualifying round. It was Jones. His two-round total of 142. which won the medal, has been equalled twice in tournament competition. It has never been beaten...