Word: tyres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...radium-water poisoning (TIME, April 11). That was the nearest Canada ever came to the title until last week when Charles Ross Somerville of London, Ont. emerged at the head of a field of 154 starters at Five Farms near Baltimore. After the first round of match play, Robert Tyre Jones Jr., an observer in a gallery of 4,000, picked the sandy-haired, moose-nosed Canadian for the title. Meanwhile near Port Chester, N. Y., George Lyon, now white-haired and 74, was leading a team in the U. S. Senior Championship. Though his team was defeated, the Grand...
...good round in his system a chance to knock over a celebrity. Only three U. S. golfers have ever won it: Walter Travis in 1904; Jess Sweetser in 1926, reeling with fever in a final against a player who did not know how to use a brassie; and Robert Tyre Jones II in 1930, beating down luck with mechanical golf...
...Northwest Airways spied a flaming trestle on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R. Remembering that he had just passed a crack passenger train thundering down from Minneapolis, Pilot Freeburg put about, flagged the express with his emergency landing flares before it could plunge into the Chippewa River. Because Robert Tyre ("Bobby") Jones Jr. was aboard the train, Pilot Freeburg had made national news...
Year ago William Robert Crissey 2nd, 26, quit his job in a Philadelphia brokerage to carry out a $2,000 wager that he could, within a year, dine with Herbert Hoover, golf with Robert Tyre Jones Jr, and with John D. Rockefeller, motor or golf with Edward of Wales. In the first week Mr. Crissey got himself invited to a newsmen's dinner at which President Hoover was guest. But he spent the rest of the year, which expired last week, in unsuccessful pursuit of Golfers Jones, Rockefeller, Edward of Wales...
...president, was elected chairman of Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co,. succeeding the late William Lewis Clause. Harold F. Pitcairn. automaker, was added to the directorate. The company is the largest U. S. maker of plate glass, is expanding into chemicals. Albert Spalding, nephew of Albert G. .Spalding, and Golfer Robert Tyre Jones Jr. were elected to the directorate of A, G- Spalding & Brother