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From then on Mr. Rockefeller took the game seriously. Whenever he missed a putt he would practice until one ball plunked the bottom of the cup. He never walked around the course. As soon as he hit a shot, a caddy would bring him a bicycle. Tucking his feet on the handlebars he would have the caddy trundle him up the fairway. Unlike his friend Andrew Carnegie, who got hopping mad when he misplayed, pious Golfer Rockefeller merely bowed his head at adversity clucked: "Shame, shame, shame...
...with a 73, four strokes under women's par. She won her first three matches, in each of which her gallery was by far the biggest on the course. She lost, in the final, to Lucille Robinson of Des Moines only when Miss Robinson sank a 6-ft. putt on the third extra hole. It was Patty's fourth major tournament of the winter. In the third, at Palm Beach last fortnight, she lost to "Maureen" in the final, after beating "Glenna" in the second round. The others, the Miami Biltmore Women's Championship and the Women...
...amazed them further by beating five opponents in a row. In the final, she played Mrs. Vare. The match appeared to be over when "Glenna" was 4 up with six holes left to play. Patty won two of the next three. Mrs. Vare won only by sinking a hard putt on the 34th green...
...sure); some bell playing; even fireworks. But of this I now vow to wash my hands and leave it all to Julian Coolidge's Bellboys and more subtle wits. For well I remember last year how sore at my heart I was to have a little putt putt thrust in my face and asked to " 'fess up" when I knew nothing more about it then than I do now. As the ancients would say, 'Twas as if the officer were milking the he-goat and Apted were holding the sieve...
Dormie Little Sirs: Your account of the final match of the American Amateur in TIME, Sept. 23, p.50, contains the following: "At the 10th, with Emery dormie. Little hit two prodigious wood shots to a green 512 yd. away, sank his putt for an eagle, and walked over to shake hands." Rules of Golf of U. S. G. A. for 1935 under "Definitions" (21) reads as follows: "A side is said to be 'dormie' when it is as many holes up as there are holes remaining to be played." Little was dormie, not Emery...