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UNTO CAESAR-F. A. Voigt-Putnam ($3). A long, weary argument by the Foreign Editor of the Manchester Guardian, urging Britain to rearm, for the end of the world is at hand...
...unheard of and where anyone who waited for a tine day would rarely play at all, says golf is an all-weather game. Officials of the U. S. Golf Association refused to hear of a postponement, sent Scotland's Jack McLean and New York's George Voigt, Cincinnati's Johnny Fischer and Omaha's Johnny Goodman, out to play their matches. While the golfers staggered around the course, the older members, having waited 28 years for a great golfing spectacle, sat down to squint instead at what Fate had substituted for it. Long Island...
...named the Walker Cup team to play against Great Britain at St. Andrews in May: Francis Ouimet, captain; George T. Dunlap Jr., Harry Chandler Egan, Johnny Fischer, Johnny Goodman, W. Lawson Little Jr., Max Marston, Gus Moreland, Jack Westland. Notable was the dropping of McCarthy, Seaver, Johnston and Voigt. More notable was the selection of Chandler Egan, 50-year-old Oregon fruit grower who won his first national amateur championship 30 years ago, dropped out of national play for 20 years, came back strong in 1929. In last year's national amateur he defeated Johnny Goodman, open champion...
When the tougher grind of match play began the next day, the younger golfers suffered retribution for their medal performances. Ouimet, playing like an auto-matic stoker, put out George Voigt 6 & 5. Voigt was one under par for the first nine holes - and 4 down. Ouimet had played the nine in 30. A young Yale player, Sidney W. Noyes, pressed Ouimet in the afternoon but was put out 1 down...
When the series was all over, the only thing the British team could really be pleased about was a small round dent in the side of the Walker Cup. It was a reminder of the only match that went to England this year, the one between George Voigt and Leonard Crawley, a Dunfrieshire. schoolmaster better known in England for his cricket than his golf. Crawley's iron on the :8th overshot the green and bounced against the Cup which, with its bright silver handles sticking out like donkey's ears, was standing on the clubhouse lawn...