Word: tyres
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Robert Tyre Jones Jr., famed golfer: "As a law school freshman at Emory University, I have pored long over my law books. Last week, when the mid-term examination marks were posted, my name led all the rest. My marks were: A in torts (the only A in the class); A in contracts (the first A made in two years); B in public utilities and B in pleading (only two marks were better) ; C in property (highest mark in the class). It was pointed out that few of my classmates had had my opportunities. Before attending Emory Law School...
Among the others who are expected to swell the Crimson point total are W. C. Peet, '28, quarter-miler. G. W. Smith '29, half-miler, A. E. French, broad-jumper, J. L. Reid, two-miler, N. S. Ballan, tyre '27, low and high hardles, and J. O. Wildes, miler...
Born. To Mr. and Mrs. Robert Tyre ("Bobby") Jones II, a son, Robert Tyre Jones III; in Atlanta...
Champion Robert Tyre Jones turned in a medal-winning 143, which included a 70 composed of 16 pars and two birdies. One George Craig Jr. of Pittsburgh handed in a score that averaged a flat two strokes a hole more than Jones. Between these two came a discrepant assortment of gentlemen, from slow-moving little Rudolph Knepper, onetime Princeton captain, with 147, to wavering, uncertain Watts Gunn (Bobby Jones's Atlanta playmate"), who just managed to qualify with a second round of 83 after a bad first round of 80. A certain George Von Elm of Los Angeles...
Match play began. Von Elm, weak against tall Ellsworth Augustus of Cleveland, barely managed to take the match on the 19th hole. Richard Jones, Massachusetts state champion, pressed Robert Tyre Jones hard before succumbing by one hole. M. B. Stevenson played a family match against long-driving young Roland MacKenzie. Long an intimate of the lad's parents, Mr. Stevenson sent Mrs. MacKenzie Sr. a telegram expressing profound sorrow at having been forced to eliminate her son. Francis Ouimet and Charles Evans, both former title holders, came through the early rounds with ease; they might, if Jones relapsed, meet...