Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cabot still treasures as a great compliment a remark he overheard in the gas fields: "Hell, Mr. Cabot's as common as anyone...
Last week most of the 2,000.000 U. S. 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...
...semi-finals in the 1926 British Amateur which his Walker Cup teammate Jess Sweetser finally won. In fact, Bobby Jones failed three times before finally winning it in 1930, the year he made his famed "Grand Slam" (British Amateur, British Open, U. S. Amateur, U. S. Open). Goodman could still try for the British Open next month to prove that he is currently the U. S. golfing king of swing...
...Johnny Goodman sells insurance, earns about $4,000 a year, is the most celebrated member of the Omaha Field Club where he started as a caddy. Although he is an honorary member of half the organizations of Omaha, he still lives in a furnished room, still spends much of his spare time playing pinochle with his pals in the meat-packing district (where several of his seven brothers, like their father before them, work as meat packers), still goes around with the same girl he went with in 1929-a pretty stenographer, Josephine Kersigo, who makes novenas before his major...
...Still his mother's son, Johnny Goodman refuses to be lionized, particularly by the Omaha bourbons in whose company he feels uncomfortable lest he make a faux pas such as saying "amachure" instead of "amateur." Amateur or amachure, he is the best his sport has produced in the U. S. in a decade...