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...Hamilton Sabin, 65. board chairman of Manhattan's Guaranty Trust Co., director of 23 corporations, treasurer of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, longtime president of the Boys' Club of New York, husband of smart, vivacious Repealist Pauline Morton Sabin; of cerebral hemorrhage, after long illness; in Shinnecock Hills, L. I. His varied, steady-climbing banking career began when he, a flour mill clerk, was given a job by an Albany bank so he could pitch for its baseball team. France and Belgium decorated him for his Liberty Loan work. An ardent golfer, he was treasurer...
...Augusta National is a project planned along the lines of the National Golf Links of America, in Long Island's Shinnecock Hills; a links to rank among the world's finest for the use of the country's foremost. Back of the idea was Fielding Wallace, Augusta textile manufacturer who makes "press cloth" out of human hair imported from China. He and his friends formed the holding company to buy a tract of 364 acres, of which the club now uses 192. Memberships-of which Bobby Jones, the club's president, thinks 500 will be plenty...
...fetish of getting right the living color of feet, beak and the soft part around the eyes, rarely shown accurately. He spent three days getting a sketch of the comparatively common grasshopper sparrow, a hard-running, covert-loving bird. Once he lay for hours in icy water in Shinnecock Bay to catch the wing sweep of brant blown off shore by a heavy gale. The chickadee and the song sparrow are his favorite birds...
...five children, William, 19, works for a power transmission company; Polly, 18, is at Vassar; Frances, 17, goes to Barnard this autumn; Becky, 14, is in high school; Evan, 9. attends a private school in Connecticut. For fun Mr. Thomas plays a little tennis, sails a small boat on Shinnecock Bay. He drinks buttermilk, seldom smokes...
...Shinnecock Hills, L. I., Stewart Sheftal, 17, learned his golf. He has since been an expatriate, living in Paris. Last week he crossed the English Channel, went to Formby, England, defeated Archibald Dobbie, Scotch lad, for the British boys' open championship, 6 and 5. His was the eighth victorious U. S. invasion of notable British golf tournaments...