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Georgia Amateur. The Georgia Amateur Championship, always a contest between South Georgians used to sand greens and North Georgians raised on grass, was played last week in Columbus, in West Georgia. There the greens are of sleek herbage. There last week North Georgians filled three fourths of the semi-final bracket and all of the finals. With a theatrical flourish, 18-year-old Gene Cook of Atlanta won the title from redoubtable 'Watts Gunn, his clubmate. The B. Jones who reached the semi-final was Benjamin, of Druid Hills Club, Atlanta, and not chubby Robert Tyler Jones Jr., North...
Each had stroked his ball 291 times in the four orthodox rounds of the national open championship played at Worcester, Mass.; had been congratulated on a gallant tie for first place by the men they had beaten-sleek Walter Hagen, grinning Gene Sarazen, slangy Leo Diegel, trim Johnny Farrell, husky Willie Mehlhorn, tired, chagrined, heartsick Cyril Walker, the deposed champion, to whom the title had brought little joy in the year he had held it. Now they were playing an extra 18 holes to decide it-Thin Legs Willie Macfarlane, Oak Ridge professional (Tuckahoe, N. Y.), and Fat Legs Robert...
Where Death stalked last week in Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan and Illinois, he lacked his usual retinue. Gone from their mortuary parlors were the head morticians. They had entrusted to their apprentices and assistants the silk hats and sleek black coats which they, of all men, are sure to wear on weekdays. They, the master embalmers, had flocked in holiday host to the offices of the Chicago Casket Co. to discuss this whole business of snatching a living from the grave...
Bingham. Into Miami cruised the black Pawnee, sleek yacht of Henry Payne Bingham of Manhattan. On her decks were bucket-mouthed, serpentine fish, a sea-cow, glass sponges, monster iguanas (lizards) from Swan Island (300 miles south of Cuba), giant shrimps with pincers like lobsters. The Pawnee had been seeking the rhynodontypicus, a species of leviathan taken near Swan Island in 1912. Among the tales the mariners told was that of a .vast elemental shape the Negroes called "Sapodilla Tom," which surged up beneath the boat, lifted his dorsal and was gone. Off the coast of Honduras, "a great winged...
...beside her autumnal lake, her birdless woods; his face was drawn, his body lean almost to emaciation. He was a young Jew, the challenger. Opposite him stood a diminutive but hirsute Italian, his eyes as fierce as the dark lakes of Il Pitrgatorio, his round muscles bulging under his sleek brown skin. He looked truly what he was-the bantamweight champion of the world. He charged his pathetic opponent like a volley of round-shot. But what was this? A spattering of left jabs stopped his rush, jerked back his head, made the flesh puff around his eyes. Again...