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...most exciting moments of the afternoon occurred when Harvard's number John Livingood, and Princeton's Seckel stepped up to the teeoff even-up after the first six matches had split to make the score Harvard 3 and Princeton 3. Seckel smashed his six from to within ten feet of the stick while Livingood pulled his shot slightly to the left fringe of the green about forty feet away. Livingood then took three to get down when his tricky four foot second putt failed to drop, and Seckel holed out in two for a match-winning par. Livingood, however, over...

Author: By Ronald G. Strackbein, | Title: GOLFERS DEFEAT BROWN; TIGERS WIN ON 18TH HOLE | 4/21/1962 | See Source »

Over the sun-parched, hilly Hinsdale links, near Chicago, a company of overheated golfers drove, brassied, mashied their many balls. The mi- rage that led them on was the Western Amateur title. They challenged one another's right to continue the quest and in the end Albert Seckel of Chicago and Harrison R. ("Jim-mie") Johnston of St. Paul played on alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Mirage | 8/4/1924 | See Source »

...31st tee, Seckel led 4 up. Goldy-haired Johnston then squinted more keenly at the holes, won five in a row with deadly accuracy. Dormy-down, Seckel planned his 45-foot putt in the 36th hole for a birdie 3. Scornful of worm casts and slippery undulations, Johnston quashed that feat with a 35-footer to the back of the cup. For him the mirage had materialized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Mirage | 8/4/1924 | See Source »

...West as champion eight different years, yielded this last of many major titles in the third round, by 8 and 7, and slid further than ever into the limbo that has been his of late. His conqueror, James Manion of St. Louis, trans-Mississippi champion, went down before Seckel, who has not appeared or; a golfing pinnacle since 1911, when, as a Princeton undergraduate, he became Western Champion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Mirage | 8/4/1924 | See Source »

Squaring off for match play, Hunter deftly eliminated Evans. Jones (open titleholder), Cochran of Wichita Falls, Herron, Fownes, Ouimet, von Elm, Gardner did not falter. Sweetser swamped Seckel, a Chicagoan. Philadelphians were pleased because Marston advanced by scotching Simpson of Indianapolis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Amateur Golf | 10/1/1923 | See Source »

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