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...professors and by Akron politicians. Dr. Zook did not seek his U. S. job, nor did his friends seek it for him. Dr. Zook moved with his wife and adopted son to Wesley Heights, Washing ton suburb. He plays golf twice a week, is noted for length off the tee. Daily he steers his Buick to the office where he works at a desk usually clear of papers. Dr. Zook knows President Roosevelt, but not as yet very well. Since he took office in July it has become apparent to him as much as to anyone that the New Deal...
Virginia ("Gino") Van Wie (rhymes with "tee") took to golf when she was 11, because her doctor thought it might help the back she had hurt playing football with a team of little boys. D. E. Miner, golf professional at De Land, Fla. where the Van Wies spend their winters, helped build up her game, encouraged her to enter her first tournament at 16. At 17, Miss Van Wie beat Glenna Collett in the Florida East Coast championship. The 73 with which she beat her again, in the national final last year, was the best round she ever played. Impeccable...
...Tommy Armour's 288; at Olympia Fields, Chicago. On the second day of the tournament, detectives discovered that Chicago's Public Enemy No. 4, "Machine Gun Jack" McGurn, was playing in it under his real name of Vincent Gebardi. They arrested him for vagrancy at the eighth tee, where his score was one under par, accompanied him for the remaining holes. Disturbed, Golfer McGurn took an 11 at the 8th, had a card of 86, withdrew...
Near the first tee on the deceptively innocuous-looking course at Hoylake, England, stands a ramshackle hotel where chickens sometimes wander in the corridors. Its proprietor is famed John Ball, who won the British Amateur Golf Championship eight times in 24 years from 1888 to 1912 and played in it every year till this one. No one nowadays is likely to duplicate John Ball's extraordinary record. Unlike its equivalent in the U. S., the British Amateur is played without qualifying rounds. A golfer needs to be exceedingly lucky as well as able to reach, through a long succession...
...part in athletics through a feeling that the existing fee of $10 for a participation ticket and $4 for a locker is too high. By making the fee applicable to all men, it would be possible to reduce it to about $8, at the same time halving the locker tee, and still leave a net increase in revenue to be applied to the budget...