Word: tomming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fifty-seven years ago, the cathedral town of St. Andrews, Scotland, went daft over a youth of 19 whose serious face was just beginning to sprout the mutton-chop whiskers then in fashion. His name was Tom Morris Jr. With his long-necked clubs, lumpy balls and tarn o'shanter, he had gone over to Prestwick on the west coast andi for the third year running, whipped all the golfers in the land for the British Open Championship. They gave him the champion's belt, to keep permanently. The next year they did not bother to hold the tournament...
...championship cup was donated. Tom Morris Jr., his whiskers now fully and handsomely grown, went again to Prestwick and won the first leg on the cup. Scottish golfers were dismayed but cheerful. What could you do against the son and pupil of old Tom Morris, who had himself won four of the first ten championships after they were started...
...Tom Kidd, Mungo Park and Willie Park Sr. managed to overcome the Morrises the next three years. And then, on Christmas Day, 1875, Tom Morris Jr. died, aged but 24. Tom Morris Sr. lived on, but never again was a Morris champion. St. Andrews "canonized" the pair of them and erected a statue of Tom Morris Jr. making an iron shot. The statue's legend reads: "Sure...
...Taylor's record of 1909, did another young man come along who really played them "Sure and Far." Last year Robert Tyre Jones Jr. of Atlanta, with his 68 at Sunningdale (while qualifying) and his undeviating deadliness to win at St. Ann's, looked very much indeed like another Tom Morris Jr. Aged 25, he appeared to carry on where Tom Morris Jr. left...
...queen. Amongst other adventures possible in the woolly West, they break jail, lasso the girl off the back of a runaway elephant, write "I love you" into a wooden fence with bullets. The sheepish grin, buoyant acrobatics, baffled villain are on hand as usual. All in all, a good Tom Mixture...