Word: amateurs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...truly representative national competitions in U. S. athletics is the National Amateur Golf championship. This year, in its 28 sectional qualifying tournaments, 831 silver-spoon and rusty-putter golfers in all corners of the U. S. strove for the 171 places in last week's entry list at Chicago's North Shore Country Club. The National itself is one of the toughest grinds going-two qualifying rounds of medal play to cut the field to 64, four rounds of 18-hole match play to determine the semifinalists, then 36-hole semifinal and final matches. Bobby Jones...
Last week, after the second 18-hole round, on the sidelines were the great Johnny Goodman, who has also won the National Open (1933), Willie Turnesa, 1938 Amateur champion, many other top-flights. Still in stride, however, among the 16 survivors, were: 1) Poughkeepsie's Ray Billows, golf's handsome, glamorous, 25-year-old Cinderella Man, who got a toehold on golf fame in 1935 by driving to swank Winged Foot on the Sound in a $7 jalopy to win the New York State title; and 2) 26-year-old, icy-veined Marvin ("Bud") Ward, of Spokane...
...Because of amateur radio's deadly possibilities as a medium for espionage, by last week almost three-fourths of the world's radio "hams" had been ordered off the air. For the 50,000 U. S. hams thus left virtually talking to themselves, the American Radio Relay League, to which most good hams belong, last week advised: 1) all international contacts should be confined to experimental or incidental topics; 2) no news should be relayed from one country to another; 3) refrain from discussing topics which might have a military significance...
...Australians were 3-to-1 favorites to regain the Cup they had lost in 1920. Ambidextrous, 20-year-old John Bromwich (Australia's top-ranking player) and stocky, 26-year-old Adrian K. Quist (Australia's No. 2) have been considered the world's best amateur tennists since California's Donald Budge turned professional last winter and Germany's Baron von Cramm retired to the sidelines...
Although modern beach apparel has taken some wind out of Mr. White's mainsail, his cuties are still beyond cavil. For the rest, the 1939 Scandals, like its predecessors, is a swiftly paced professional amateur hour occasionally bright, often dirty, sometimes painfully in need of a gong. There is one good song, Are You Having Any Fun?, energetically shouted by 52nd Street's Scotcha Ella Logan; one big, loud ensemble, hymning Tin Pan Alley; Tapper Ann Miller, who has some things Tapper Eleanor Powell has not; and a shimmy-shake called the Mexiconga, which will not be a successor...