Word: roehampton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Roscoe Brunner, until recently Chairman of the great chemical firm of Brunner Mond & Co.; at Green Cottage, Roehampton, Eng., country house of his son-in-law Prince Ferdinand of Liechtentein; after murdering his own wife and then shooting himself. Allegedly the cause of this murder-suicide was ill health aggravated by business worries...
...second hole in the golf course at Roehampton, England, is a bad hole for golfers who do not hit a long ball. On an April day, when the turf is moist and a bright wind is blowing off the tee-flag into your nose, the second hole is not an easy hole at all. Abe Mitchell knows this. Until that hole he had been doing very well in the Roehampton invitation-the first British professional tournament of the year. Rugged and jaunty after a hibernation at St. Albans (where, under the patronage of a wealthy enthusiast, he has been pursuing...
...earth, he played as if he had suddenly become a machine adjusted to make holes in even fours. On the 16th he was a stroke under fours and Duncan, with three ragged fives, was three holes down. There, without dramatics, the match ended. Mitchell had won the Roehampton Club's prize of 200 pounds with an ease that made Britishers beam happily above their pipe-bowls in the bar that evening and lend their tongues to prophesy: "Wait till he meets the American. . . . Wait till he meets that Hagen chap...
After the Roehampton Polo Club had beaten the U. S. Army team by 8 to 4, Ambassador Alanson B. Houghton gave a dinner to both teams at Crewe House, his London residence...
...British Walker Cup Team, to play in the U. S. in September at Garden City, L. I., was named: Cyril Tolley, onetime amateur champion; O. B. Bristowe, West Byfleet; C. O. Hezlet, Royal of Portrush, Ireland; W. L. Hope, Turnfoerry; D. H. Kyle, Roehampton; W. A. Murray, West Hill; Robert Scott Jr., Glasgow; Michael Scott, Royal St. George; T. A. Torrance, Sandy Lodge, and E. F. Storey, Captain of the Cambridge University team...