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Washington correspondents, irritated by the tedious roaring of Senator Heflin of Alabama, have sometimes agreed to keep "his speeches "off the wire." He has been called a modern Ben Gunn,* a "stuffed white waistcoat" and even a "flat tire"; but his oratory is unpreventable. Last week his subject was an alleged $1,000,000 fund of the Knights of Columbus to carry on war propaganda against Mexico; his words might have been confined, unnoticed, to the Congressional Record, had not leading Democratic Senators risen to rebuke him. For three hours, Democrats talked. Republicans smiled, walked in and out, said nothing...
...pars and two birdies. One George Craig Jr. of Pittsburgh handed in a score that averaged a flat two strokes a hole more than Jones. Between these two came a discrepant assortment of gentlemen, from slow-moving little Rudolph Knepper, onetime Princeton captain, with 147, to wavering, uncertain Watts Gunn (Bobby Jones's Atlanta playmate"), who just managed to qualify with a second round of 83 after a bad first round of 80. A certain George Von Elm of Los Angeles was down the list...
...parents, Mr. Stevenson sent Mrs. MacKenzie Sr. a telegram expressing profound sorrow at having been forced to eliminate her son. Francis Ouimet and Charles Evans, both former title holders, came through the early rounds with ease; they might, if Jones relapsed, meet in the finals. Von Elm beat Watts Gunn, 8 and 7, and rollicked to a victory over a Chicago strapper named George Dawson. Robert Jones, with the flawless, electric golf that only he had ever quite achieved, marched bitterly past Chick Evans, and then past Ouimet, to meet Von Elm in the finals...
...Watts Gunn...
...Watts Gunn beat W. G. Brownlow. Brownlow was obviously stale, almost as stale as Tolley. Gunn, keen as mustard, won hole after hole, finished...