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...Pittsburgh, the Alex Smith Memorial Trophy for lowest qualifying score went to solemn young Byron Nelson of Reading, Pa., whose 139 for 36 holes topped the field by three strokes. . . . Officials of the Professional Golfers Association were pleased when three of the players they had selected for the Ryder Cup team that will play England this month and four others named as eligible for it were in the round of eight. . . . British-born Harry Cooper last year broke the record for the U. S. Open by two strokes, lost the title when Tony Manero broke it by four. Last week...
...members are: E. Alston Blackwell; John L. Donnell; Robert J. Glaser; R. Stuart Hoyt; Cranston E. Jones; Christian M. Laurlitzen, 2nd.; John H. Loeb; Lloyd Mills, Jr.; Phill G. Neal; Joseph C. Pesden, Jr.; Alfred W. Putnam; Brooks Ryder; Templeton Smith; Donald M. Thurber; D. Willson Webb; Roger L. Werner; and William P. Young...
...actors, much the same as the people they represent, are parading their talents before an oblivious world. But all are compotent, and some are good. Jack F. Ryder, in the rule of the above Ken Holden, has to appear, as the acts progress, grumpy, elsted, and placidly drunk, and does brilliantly in all except the first. One cannot help wishing the reclaimed actors well, and feeling that here at least is not boondoggling...
Pleased, the delegates listened to greetings from Maine's Democratic Governor Louis Jefferson Brann, raised to the presidency their Vice President Clayton Rand of the Gulfport (Miss.) Guide, decided the best editorial page in their membership was that put out by Charles Lendrum Ryder of the Cobleskill (N. Y.) Times, wound up their meeting by setting out on a 1,000-mi. boat and bus junket through the state of Maine...
Considerably less famed than the Walker and Ryder Cup play between the best U. S. and British male golfers, the biennial Curtis Cup matches are a healthy, respectable female counterpart. Last week in Scotland a picked U. S. team of five oldtimers and 18-year-old Patricia Jane ("Patty") Berg eked out a 4½-to-4½ tie, retained the trophy, which has yet to leave the U. S. Real winner was par which, ably assisted by the weather, gave both teams a sound trouncing...