Word: tyres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British Who's Who, issued annually at this time, Mrs. Helen Wills Moody was included for the first time, her tennis championships being listed under "recreations." Robert Tyre Jones Jr. of Atlanta, open and amateur golf champion of Britain was left out, as was William Tatem Tilden II. Ernest Hemingway joined the U. S. literary contingent of Sinclair Lewis, Henry Louis Mencken, Theodore Dreiser, Eugene Gladstone O'Neill. Paul Robeson, Negro tenor and actor, not listed in Who's Who in America, is listed in Britain's Who's Who. Charles Augustus Lindbergh...
These were part of the things that a tribunal of sport leaders throughout the U. S. said last week about Atlanta's Robert Tyre Jones Jr. Out of a selected panel of ten amateur athletes (TIME, Dec. 1) they named him No. 1, gave him the Amateur Athletic Union's James E. Sullivan Memorial Medal for 1930 as the amateur who "has done most to advance the cause of sportsmanship." Jones got 1,625 votes from the Union's members; Clarence De Mar, runner up, 800; Mrs. Helen Wills Moody...
Golfer Robert Tyre Jones...
When Robert Tyre Jones Jr. of Atlanta marched off the eleventh green at Merion Cricket Club with the world's four major golf titles safely in hand (TiME, Oct. 6) it was generally understood that he would continue competitive golf. He stated that he would not retire. Last week he announced: He is definitely out of tournament golf; will continue his career as an Atlanta barrister; will presently make a series of one-reel cinemas for Warner Bros., "purely educational in character." Excerpts...
John Hay ("Jock") Whitney;Robert Tyre ("Bobby") Jones...