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...amateur golfers, 90% of whom cannot break 90 consistently, were reading with vicarious thrills the news of the nine Americans chosen to represent them in the tenth series of Walker Cup matches. †still the No. 1 international event, played this week at famed St. Andrews on the Scottish coast. All golf enthusiasts are well aware that the nearest Great Britain has ever come to putting a dent in the Walker Cup was in 1932 at Brookline, when Briton Leonard Crawley hooked an iron shot to the spot where the big silver trophy was on display, knocked...
...Poughkeepsie (runner-up to Goodman in last year's Amateur), Johnny Fischer of Cincinnati (Amateur champion in 1936), Freddy Haas of New Orleans (U. S. intercollegiate champion), Charley Kocsis of Detroit, Reynolds Smith of Dallas, Marvin Ward of Olympia, and Charley Yates of Atlanta. Some had played on Scottish links before and some had not. But all nine, including non-playing Captain Ouimet. tuned up for the international matches by competing-along with 200 others from all over the world-in the 52nd annual British Amateur championship, played last week on the Seaside links at Troon...
...golfer to win the British Amateur** and the first to beat its peculiar hazards in his first competitive experience on a British course. He attributed his amazing victory to a suit of red flannel underwear his friend and fellow townsman, Bobby Jones, had given him to keep out the Scottish gales. Scottish spectators thought they had seen the greatest golfer since Bobby Jones...
...lithe, natural lass with Celtic charm and an unaccountable suggestion of a double chin, she was soon rumored to be David Selznick's choice for Scarlett O'Hara. But Zanuck had already signed her. In Kidnapped her voice lacks depth, except when she is singing a Scottish ballad with Maxine Sullivan flavor. She acts as if she were not quite at home in Scotland or Hollywood...
Although keeping four Scottish homes, Lord Bute and ancestors have long concentrated their financial interests in Welsh coal mines, which now pay about $545,000 a year and for which the Government will give $10,000,000 when they are nationalized. To handle the coal, the Crichton-Stuarts built most of Cardiff's enormous docks. But even more lucrative of late have been the family's vast Cardiff real-estate holdings, from which $750,000 yearly in long-term leases was gleaned. Docks and real estate were both included in the sale-20,000 houses, the Cardiff Shipping...