Word: tientsin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British Amateur without losing a single hole in the final round-14 up and 13 to play, the most one-sided score on record. Lawson Little learned to play golf on links built on the site of a Chinese graveyard, when his army-officer father was stationed at Tientsin. A club rule said: "Ball may be lifted and dropped from open coffin without penalty." By the time Lawson Little entered Stanford, where he majors in economics and belongs to Chi Phi fraternity, his golf game was steadily in the 70. A good all-round athlete. Little likes golf well enough...
...first tournament blind baggage seven years ago, was teamed with Lawson Little of San Francisco. Semifinalist in last year's National Amateur, Golfer Little is accustomed to playing in the world's far corners, having learned the game while his father was an army officer stationed in Tientsin. Opposing Little and Goodman were huge Cyril Tolley and Roger Wethered. That match was won on the first tee when Little stepped up to the ball and lined a drive 30 demoralizing yards farther than Wethered's. Long before the match ended 8 and 6 in favor...
...campus' friendliest and best-liked girls. She is treasurer of the Athletic Association, was president last year of the International Club. Her father, Zoong Ing Ting, is a Shanghai physician. Her aunt, Dr. Vung Ting, China's No. 1 woman physician, is head of Tientsin's Women's Hospital. When she finishes at Bryn Mawr next year Vung-Yuin Ting plans to go to the University of Michigan Medical School, then back to Shanghai to practice with Dr. Zoong Ing Ting. In Manhattan last week Columbia University Press announced publication of Eleanor Gertrude Brown...
...bride from the catalog of a marriage broker. The daughter of a Manchu businessman named Jung Yuang, she had been educated by the Sisters Miriam and Isabel Ingram. Philadelphia missionaries, and preferred to be called Elizabeth. Elizabeth was quite sufficient but on the insistence of his Japanese "protectors" in Tientsin Henry took Wife...
...Boxer Rebellion, Dr. Morrison of the London Times and Dr. Robert Coltman of the News were besieged in the foreign compound at Peking. A Chinese beggar smuggled their stories to Tientsin. In 1904, the News had a reporter traveling with Kuroki's Army through Manchuria. When Japan silenced the wireless on the London Times's dispatch boat, the News was left with the only working press craft in the Yellow Sea. Victor Lawson was more concerned with making the News a good paper than running up his circulation, but the News grew with its city...