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That Harry Cooper is still No. 1 golfer in the U. S. was conclusively demonstrated during this winter's competition (the first quarter of the 1938 race). Although slam-bang Sam Snead posted the season's lowest score for a single tournament (267 in the Miami Open) and long-driving Jimmy Thomson and painstaking Horton Smith each made headlines with record-smashing 36-hole totals of 131, smooth-moving Harry Cooper, straight as an arrow from tee to green, plodded along-over soft fairways and hard ones, over slow greens and fast ones-like the tortoise in Aesop...
After that the young ladies relaxed and began to have a good time. Kay Stammers, most graceful of lefthanders, played a slam-bang game as though she were tossing off an easy victory, but lost to Miss Marble, 6-3, 6-1. In the same sort of match, twinkle-toed Sarah Palfrey Fabyan in her well-bred fashion beat left-handed Margot Lumb, English squash racquets champion. For the last doubles match Captain Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, the Cup's sturdy donor who still: plays capable tennis herself, substituted chubby Dorothy May Sutton Bundy for Miss Jacobs, who had done...
...Dome investigation, thus far, has been the silence of Mr. Untermyer. But the New York lawyer has seemingly been laying for bigger game. No sooner had Secretary Hoover declared the need of organized purchasing in this country to offset foreign monopolies in trade than Mr. Untermyer went at him slam-bang on his attitude toward trade associations in this country, which has been with Mr. Untermyer a tender subject ever since the Lockwood Committee investigation in New York State...