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...Roman Catholic. I hope you will make the needed correction. HAROLD GOODWIN P. S. - I was admitted to the Bar of the Supreme Court by him. TIME Lancaster, Pa. The News-Magazine Oct. 16, 1925. Sirs: In your issue of Oct. 19 you refer to "Chief Justice Putter, Confederate veteran, the only Roman Catholic Chief Justice," on Page 8. You evidently mean Chief Justice White. Edward D. White of Louisiana was both a Confederate veteran and a Roman Catholic. Melville W. Fuller of Illinois was neither. WILLIAM H. KELLER Judge of the Superior Court of Pa. Of course, as Judge...
...still they fell in those first and second rounds: deliberate Rudolph Knepper, demon putter of recent Princeton teams, before one L. L. Bredin of Detroit; Chick Evans, onetime monarch of the West, before L. E. Bunning, stout-hearted Chicago business man; James Manion and then Eddie Held, the prides of St. Louis, before Keefe' Carter, Oklahoma boy-champion...
...Sweetser, onetime (1922) National Amateur Champion, qualified for the annual invitation tournament at the Greenwich Country Club, the lowest by so wide a cut that he seemed a certain winner. All that stood in his way was a blond stripling named Lawrence Lloyd, a Greenwich youth who had a putter. On every green, that putter flashed. Down went straight 15 footers, down went curly 10 footers, down went nasty 6 footers, down went Jess Sweetser, by a stroke on the last green. Golf, chortled the supporters of Lloyd, is a humbling game. Out sallied Lloyd to play in the finals...
...past, strode a handsome figure. Burdened with business and a family, Robert A. Gardner, National Amateur Golf Champion in 1909 and 1915, is little heard of these days in the wider golfing circles. Last week, at his home club, Onwentsia (Lake Forest, Ill.) he clenched his putter firmly, ended a sweltering match with a 35-ft. putt that beat Tom Frainey, Chicago public-links player, 3 and 2 for the Chicago District Championship, held, last year as well, by Gardner...
...important championships between 1898 and 1914, had among his pupils Jerry Travers, Marion Hollins, Glenna Collett, Reggie Lewis. MacDonald, the youngest, was famed at 15, played extraordinary golf until, in 1914, he went to California, disappeared from competition. Recently, he returned. When playing, he is sombre, sanctimonious, a slow putter, a silent walker...