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...near Berlin, where Professor Albert Einstein goes sail-boating; elegantly skinny Johnny Farrell; Wiffy Cox, the only pro who played the new U. S. "big ball" (and shot a 68 with it) in the first round last week. In addition to these, there were the members of the British Ryder Cup team, who, badly beaten in their matches against the U. S., were getting back on their games; Leo Diegel, who has won the Canadian Open four times; Aubrey Boomer, British professional of the St. Cloud Club near Paris...
...Greenwich, Conn. A ponderous, muscular fellow, he smokes large black cigars when golfing, observes few of the niceties usually appreciated by onetime caddies whose golfing proficiency has enabled them to know nice people. Before the Open started, theorists spoke well of Burke's chances. The week before, in the Ryder Cup matches, he had kept his wooden shots straight, a trick that would be valuable on a narrow, well-trapped short course like Inverness, where Ted Ray won the U. S. Open...
Five years ago, a mustachioed British seedsman named Samuel Ryder put up a cup to be played for at two-year intervals by teams of British and U. S. golf professionals. Since then, British professionals have won once officially, once informally in 1926; U. S. professionals once. Near Columbus, Ohio, where the Scioto River winds through the narrow fairways and tall rough of the Scioto golf course 19 British and U. S. golf professionals played the third official series of Ryder Cup matches last week...
...first day of play, the heat wave, against which the British had complained, broke in a loud thunderstorm, the British Ryder Cup team lost three out of four two-ball foursomes. Next day, Gene Sarazen kept his trousers pressed and his shirt buttoned up, beat Fred Robson, seven up. He appalled Robson on the fourth hole by driving his ball into a refreshment stand, playing a niblick shot off the floor & through a window to within eight feet of the hole. Bill Burke, Greenwich, Conn., professional, beat erratic Archie Compston seven up. A home-town gallery was with Densmore Shute...
...people to trade only on fundamentals, have eliminated many of the worst types of customers' men at present. But Writer Sparkes is not dealing with a vanished race. Many a Wall Streeter will be amused by Customers' Man, many a Main Streeter instructed. Harold Russell ("Night") Ryder, 35, business-getting partner in the defunct brokerage house of Woody & Co. was last week sentenced to not less than three nor more than ten years in prison for grand larceny. He used to say he had $4,000,000 before he was 30, used to call himself "the brightest young...