Word: runners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years ago that Walter J. Travis, a young man from Australia, became known as Golfer Travis in the U. S. In 1897 he showed promise. In 1898 he was runner-up in the national amateur championship, and again in 1899. In 1900 and 1901 he was medalist and winner of the national amateur. In 1902 he tied for second in the national open, and won the amateur medal a third time in succession. He was amateur champion again in 1903, and in 1904 did what no nonresident of the British Isles had ever done, won the British amateur championship...
...remember that Ben E. Stein of Seattle was runner-up in the 1926 Western Amateur Golf Championship?an obscure runner-up is easily forgotten. But last week when Ben E. Stein played one-under-par golf to defeat Eddie Held in the finals of the Western Amateur at Seattle, his friends in the Northwest began to boom him as a potential rival of Robert Tyre Jones Jr. and George von Elm in future U. S. Amateur Championships...
...Runner-up would have been Lawrence Auchterlonie who, as it was, won with 307 strokes...
...York City's welcome in her honor was runner-up to the recent Lindbergh carnival. But the vaudeville and cinema contracts in her honor were not as fat as admirers expected. Her lawyer, Dudley Field Malone of Manhattan, finally allowed her to accept a contract which required that she perform in a glass tub on vaudeville stages. "The idea of an endurance swimmer showing the public anything in a one-stroke tub suggests a whale doing a marathon in an eye cup," remarked a Chicago Tribune writer...
...Although he had a handicap in the mile Reid distanced the field by considerably more than the length of his starting advantage. In the half Reid and Haggerty starting from scratch led, running about even until they reached the home stretch. Then from nowhere in particular appeared an unheralded runner, Gerior, of the St. Alfonso A. C., and forged ahead of the Crimson stars to break the tape in the lead...