Word: ouimet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, for the first time since 1913, when 20-year-old Francis Ouimet startled the golf world by finishing in the same number of strokes as the barnstorming British Professionals Harry Vardon & Ted Ray, the U. S. Open Golf Championship ended in a three-way tie. Identical scores of 284, after three days of nerve-racking play over the sun-baked Spring Mill course of the Philadelphia Country Club, were hung up by Craig Wood, Denny Shute and Byron Nelson...
...golf was to purchase a $40 scarlet coat with brass buttons, golf was the pastime of the "400." Its players were not only kidded on the vaudeville stage, but scorned by the more experienced, less gaudy British. In 1913, however, when an obscure 20-year-old Bostonian named Francis Ouimet beat Britain's famed barnstorming professionals, Harry Vardon and Ted Ray, for the U. S. Open championship, Great Britain began to raise her eyebrows. And in 1922, after an amazing crop of young golfers had sprouted up all over the U. S., Great Britain agreed to play...
...side was as formidable as ever. Captained by that same Francis Ouimet who had put U. S. golf on the front pages 25 years ago, it was the strongest and youngest team the U. S. had ever selected. The Americans, too, thought they had the best amateur golfer since Bobby Jones: 28-year-old Johnny Goodman of Omaha, U. S. Amateur champion, the best shotmaker and most consistent scorer of 1937, who had never lost a Walker Cup match (1934 or 1936). Other members of the team, chosen on the basis of performances during the past two years, were...
...Johnny Goodman respectively on the second day. "Well, Johnny, it's better to be lucky than good," drawled Atlanta's Yates, the team's clown, after he had ousted Fischer by laying him a dead stymie on the 19th green. In the third round, Captain Ouimet was nosed out on the last hole by hard-hitting Cecil Ewing, one of Ireland's best. On the fourth day, a lashing gale and pounding rain swept even sturdy Johnny Goodman off his balance and out of the tournament, beaten by his teammate Charley Kocsis-who was in turn...
This was the National Amateur Golf Championship, which was being played in the Pacific Northwest (at Portland's Alderwood Country Club) for the first time in history. In a downpour which soaked the players the first day. Oldtimer Francis Ouimet, who won the Amateur in 1914 and again in 1931, found his ball as unmanageable as an eel, dropped out with an 85 But another oldtimer. Charles ("Chick") Evans, who held the title in 1916 and 1920, ran off a neat 74 on the mushy course in the first round of his 28th national championship. It was Evans...