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...George Terry Dunlap Jr., onetime intercollegiate golf champion (Princeton) : the North & South amateur championship for the second year; 7 & 5 against Jack Toomer of Jacksonville in the final; after taking the medal with 65-72-137 and tying the course record with a 64 in the quarterfinals; at Pinehurst, N. C. C Haligonian, 45-ft. schooner owned and sailed by Houston Wall of Tampa, Fla.: the fourth annual St. Petersburg-to-Havana race, for the President Machado Cup; in 90 hr. 58 min. 45 sec. elapsed time...
...Kirkwood, seasoned golf professional of Philadelphia: the North & South Open championship; with a record score of 277; at Pinehurst. Long famed for his skill at "trick" shots, Kirkwood two months ago stopped playing in theatres, so improved his game that in four rounds at Pinehurst not one of his drives landed off the fairway...
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...last week, the notion of enlarging the cup had reached the status of an experiment, seemed a potential crusade. At Pinehurst, N. C. a group of golfers which included William C. Fownes Jr., onetime (1910) amateur champion and onetime (1926-27) president of the U. S. Golf Association, had tried 8-in. cups on a sand green. They thought it made putting too easy. The Pinehurst golfers then tried a 6-in. cup, planned a tournament to see if the members liked it. Eight-inch cups were installed at the Cavalier Country Club, Virginia Beach; Riviera Golf Course, Miami; Palmaceia...
...live-at-home" dinner at the State College at Raleigh. Except for salt, pepper, sugar and coffee the menu was entirely North Carolinian: shrimps from Southport, clams from Wilmington, turkeys from Durham, sausages from Kinston, mushrooms from Charlotte, onions from Wilson, corn (pone) meal from Maxton, milk from Pinehurst, walnuts from Madison County, pecans from Lumberton. Lucky Strikes from Reidsville, Chesterfields from Durham. Among the favors were knitted underwear from Winston-Salem, homespun suits from Biltmore, hosiery from Morganton, coughdrops (Vick's) from Greensboro, thread from Gastonia...