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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hero of this exhibition is a shipping clerk who mixes up his adverbs and can get 300 yards from the tee. In return for curing his round employer's slice, he gains a guest card to the latter's country club. He drops a spoon shot on a lady's backbone and, while apologizing, falls in love. Advertised by his host as the heir to $80,000,000, he wins the lady. Her indignation is extensive when, in a hotel room, he reports his penury, a condition which renders her in his eyes and in her nightgown...
...they stood on the first tee waiting to begin the afternoon round of their match, a Western Union messenger dashed up with a yellow envelope for Serrick. He opened it, turned pale, then bit his lip and shoved the missive into his pocket. He got into trouble on his drives, he overputted, topped his approaches. Later in the day, with McAuliffe 5 up, he spied his mother in the gallery. "They said you were sick," he whispered. The crumpled telegram read : MOTHER DANGEROUSLY ILL COME AT ONCE. McAuliffe, who did not need, as a matter of fact, the efforts...
...women's tennis-Miss Helen Wills, Miss Elizabeth Ryan, Miss Mary K. Browne, Mrs. Molla Bjurstedt Mailory , Miss Eleanor Goss, Mrs. Marion Zinderstein Jessup-entered the Metropolitan Women's Turf Court Championship, strode through to the round before the semi-final without defeat. Then Miss Goss, placed at No. 4 in the National ranking, was the worm that turned against Miss Mary K. Browne, No. 2, brought her down, 6-3, 5-7, 6-4. Miss Wills sprang to revenge her doubles partner, handily defeated Miss Goss, 6-1, 6-2. Then occurred another upset. Miss Ryan...
...greens. He putted only 23 times, scored a 60 over the Tenison links. This shattered Walter Hagen's "U. S. low-score record" of 62, hung up in Florida two years ago. The "world's record," a 56 credited to George Duncan of England for a round in the Swiss Open Championship of 1913, still stood...
Shenecossett Invitation. Battalions of babbling women assemble annually on the cool porches and breezy links of the Shenecossett Country Club (New London, Conn.) for an invitation tournament. Among them there always moves, subdued, almost morose, a Foregone Conclusion. Last week the Conclusion won the qualifying round from the babblers with a 78. Up stepped lank Dorothy Klotz of Chicago; the Conclusion settled upon her 4 and 3. Up stepped Helen Payson of Portland, Me., a nervy novice; the Conclusion finally rested at the 18th green, 1 up. Along came pouring rain and sure-putting Mrs. H. D. Sterrett of Hutchinson...