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Last week King George had a dinner of fine plump red Scotch grouse shipped by express from Balmoral Castle, but many another grouse-loving Briton ate mutton or went hungry. On the morning of the Twelfth-opening date of the Scottish grouse season-a violent thunderstorm swept over the moors, leaving boggy ground and a heavy mist in its wake. Sportsmen standing ankle-deep in the sticky peat of shooting butts had no sooner begun popping at dimly seen grouse than another storm broke and drove them home. But not before a gamekeeper had been shot dead at Clonmannon. Growled...
...Albany held the Governor of New York most of last week. Through the quiet room boomed the confused sounds of the Democratic convention in Chicago. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, his lame legs stretched out before him, official duties forgotten, leaned back and listened happily. At his feet was his Scotch terrier, Megs. Nearby hovered his wife Anna. His 77-year-old mother knitted silently. Sons Elliott, 21, and John, 16, paced about in nervous excitement...
This is no disparagement of the late Capt. Robert Dollar, a wire-edged Scotch trader if there ever was one. Having known all three men I have often wondered what would have happened if they had engaged in a tripartite deal and who would have brought in the bacon. A venturesome bookmaker might have laid odds at 21/2 to i and take your pick. My money would have gone down on Dolbeer, with many mental reservations...
When he won the U. S. Open at Skokie in 1922, Gene Sarazen was the second caddy-bred U. S. professional of other than Scotch or English descent to reach the top. He was raised in Bridgeport, son of an Italian contractor. The first man was Walter Hagen, son of a German greenskeeper in Rochester. Now the U. S. tournaments are full of Ciucis, Espinosas, Kozaks, Turnesas, and the U. S. open champion is Billy Burke, born Burkowski, son of a Lithuanian steel worker...
Saturday afternoon indignant Adams House residents put to flight an itinerant Italian piper, who was performing on a Scotch bagpipe, by gathering a collection of tubas, French horns, oboes, and saxophones, with which they offered the old gentleman competition...