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...looked smaller than shrunken thimbles," he moaned, as he posted 160 (83-77) for the opening 36-hole medal round, five strokes too many to qualify him for the match play that determines the champion. Left to uphold the honor of the crooners' guild was Richard D. ("Dick") Chapman, 29-year-old New York and Pinehurst socialite, whose nightclub warbling has been more lark than livelihood. Playboy Chapman turned in the best medal score-140 (71-69), second lowest in Amateur history...
Though Winged Foot is Chapman's home course, few fans gave him much chance to survive six rounds of match play. In the past 35 years, only Bobby Jones had been able to win the championship after the jinx of winning the medal. But deadeye Dick Chapman, who has majored in golf most of his life, was determined to win the U. S. title this year. Three times he had reached the quarter-finals of the British Amateur, two years ago he reached the semi-finals of the U. S. Amateur...
Fortnight ago, after brooding over St.Paul's for 21 years, Mr. Chapman, now a dairy farmer in Barrytown, N.Y., told his story and the low-down on his famous old school in a book: The Wrong Attitude: A Bad Boy at a Good School (Putnam...
...Chapman named no names, identified St. Paul's: "It was a great big scnool named after a great big powerful Saint, whom some of us boys thought a little narrow-minded. The place was full of tradition. It was one of the oldest boarding schools in New England. The hockey was good and the scholarship did the best it could...
...walking down the school street one day when the school's disciplinary master (known as "the Jeep") overtook him and quietly remarked: "Chanler, you have got just as many friends here as you ever had. You'd better come back next year." After 21 years, Chanler Chapman con cluded: "All that happened was that I learned a sense of proportion. ... I had the best time I ever had in any institution, committed more crimes and follies, led the forces of rebellion and disorder . . . and, because of a dozen dry words spoken haphazardly by one man, suffered...