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Died. Harry Vardon, 66, oldtime professional golfer, six-time British Open champion; of pleurisy; at Whetstone, near London...
Elvira and, Tiberio, his prize-winning canvas (see cut) shows an embarrassed but happy pair of young South American Negroes, all dressed up in their Sunday best and perched primly on the edge of an emerald green sofa. Elvira has a gay wreath of pink poppies around her Dolly Vardon hat. Tiberio's immaculate white linen suit is set off by a magnificent striped shirt...
...Brookline in 1913 a 20-year-old named Francis Ouimet beat two of the world's most famed golfers. Ted Ray and Harry Vardon, in a play-off for the U. S. Open Championship. At Brookline last week a Bobby Jones, 18. of Detroit, put out Francis Ouimet. Famed Robert Tyre Jones of Atlanta watched the match, praised his namesake's putting...
Most indignant comment came from England, where all U. S. golf innovations are disgusting to golfers who abide by the regulations of the staid St. Andrews club. Said Sandy Herd: "Farcical!" Charles Whitcombe: "Absurd!" James Braid: "The walls would crumble!" Harry Vardon: "The very idea makes me angry...
...Brookline, Mass, is the country club where, in 1913, when he was 20, Francis Ouimet tied famed Harry Vardon and Ted Ray in his first U. S. Open championship, then beat them both in a momentous playoff. Francis Ouimet does a lot of his golfing at the Brookline club but it was for another momentous match against British golfers that he was there again last week. As U. S. Amateur Champion he had been made captain of the U. S. Walker Cup Team...