Word: tournament
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, large Olin Anthony Dutra was seized in his mighty middle by great gripes which he feared were amebic dysentery. He spent two days resting in Detroit, arrived in Philadelphia with a box of pills and the intention of watching the tournament instead of playing in it. His brother Mortie persuaded him not to withdraw his entry. With a caddy who had dreamed that he would win, Dutra started out, ambling slowly, using his niblick as a walking stick...
First day of the tournament Dutra did nothing remarkable. He and 21 other entrants had 76. Headlines went to Bobby Cruickshank, Whiffey Cox and Charley Lacey who led the field; to Lawson Little, just back from winning the British Amateur, who broke his favorite driver and made a feeble 83; to the fact that no one in the windblown field of 149 players managed to equal...
Second day of the tournament, Dutra had a 74 which left him well behind the leaders. Jimmy Hines managed to equal par for the course, and Cruickshank shot a 71 which put him three strokes ahead of Sarazen, four ahead...
...score did the crowd at the 18th green begin to wonder what had become of Dutra. He and Lawson Little were the last pair in the field. Playing with almost no gallery, taking a pill which his caddy offered him every hour, Dutra, 15 Ib. lighter than when the tournament began, was on the 15th tee, waiting for officials to silence a yapping fox terrier so that he could drive. He had had a 71 on his morning round. Now, to win the tournament, all he needed was to play the last four holes in not more than one stroke...
...exciting barrel race. On the "Sleepy Hollow Stock Exchange" trading in lottery tickets for automobiles and cases of whiskey was active with no restrictions on short-selling or sharp practice. A winner of a case of bourbon was Chairman Winthrop Aldrich of Chase National Bank. In the golf tournament Jess Sweetser, onetime British amateur champion and now of Shields & Co., won low gross with a 73. Only tip-top Manhattan bondmen enjoy the Sleepy Hollow jamboree but the. Bond Club's annual publication - the " Bawl Street Journal-is sold in every important financial city in the land...