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...Paul was the Professional Golfers' Association championship, hardest match-play tournament in the world to win, for which British & U. S. Open Champion Gene Sarazen failed to qualify three weeks ago. Ponderous Olin Dutra who looks like Jack Dempsey and handles his putter like an elephant with a teaspoon, won the medal with 140. His brother Mortie, Johnny Farrell, Mike Turnesa, Abe Espinosa, Walter Kozak, Tommy Armour and last year's Open champion, Billy Burke, were all over the play-off score?153. The first round was memorable for two tremendous matches which passed the record set when Chick Evans...
...needs), Hagen putted badly, drove well, made a left-handed recovery shot with a right-handed niblick, stayed in the running with 148 for the first two rounds. So did his partner, Wiffy Cox, who, when he failed to hole easy putts, threw away his ball and then his putter. Swart, cocky little Gene Sarazen, back from winning the British Open with a record 283, started badly on his onetime home course, but he was only a stroke back of Perkins, tied with Jurado and Leo Diegel, with 220 after his third round. A stroke back of these three...
...asked Bobby Jones to play a round of midget-golf with a 25? putter, he might refuse but he would not be shocked. But if you asked Lo Wenching to play a game of table tennis, his small Chinese face, no longer inscrutable, would assume an appalled expression, as though you had insulted one of his ancestors. Lo Wenching comes from Peiping and he learned to play ping-pong at Tsing-Hua University. He, like other ping-pong players, hates mention of table tennis because so many people confuse it with ping-pong which is played with patented equipment...
Herman Brix, world's champion 16-pound shot putter, and Coach Boyd Comstock, both of the Los Angeles Athletic Club, were visitors at Soldiers Field yesterday. Brix took a slight workout, putting the iron ball some 50 feet while Harvard weight men watched his form with interest. G. W. Kuehn '32 received an hour's special instruction from Comstock and the rugged Californian. Alfred Kidder '33 and M. J. Finlayson '32, giant Crimson weight throwers were watched with interest by the visitors...
...Hallowell, Jr. '32, Arthur Foote '33, J. M. Fox '32, B. E. Estes '32, and F. D. Murphy '33, who excel in the distance events; J. B. Hawes '32, A. C. Forbes '32, and J. W. Crickard '33, whose specialties are the sprints; G. W. Kuehn '32, veteran shot putter; N. P. Dodge '33, J. M. Morso '34, and J. B. White '34, who are middle distance runners...