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...dour and solitary game called golf, but they did not get around to organizing the Royal & Ancient Golf Club at St. Andrews until 1754. Fortnight ago, little George T. Dunlap Jr., U. S. amateur champion, Johnny Goodman, U. S. open champion, and Boston's spectacled Francis Ouimet, stood with bared heads in the Graveyard of St. Andrews Cathedral. There, in the very Mecca of golfdom, lay many of the game's great dead. Golfer Ouimet solemnly laid a bunch of yellow flowers on the still-fresh grave of Golfer Andra Kirkaldy, longtime St. Andrews professional. Golfers Dunlap...
Also U. S. G. A. 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...
...coming golfers of this country will be college men," remarked Francis Ouimet in an interview with the CRIMSON recently. Ouimet, one of the leading amateur golfers in the country, won the National Amateur Golf Championship of the United States in 1914 and regained his title in 1931 after 17 years of tournament play...
...Engineers' Club was organized in 1917. The Amateur Championship that was played there in 1920 contained three historic matches: the one in which Chick Evans beat Reginald Lewis in 41 holes; the one in which Francis Ouimet beat young Bobby Jones, who was pursued by an angry bee; the final in which Evans beat Ouimet, 7 & 6. Whether the course- one of the best in the U. S.. with a particularly terrifying one-shot hole. No. 14 -would be sold for building lots, reorganized or taken over by one of many neighboring clubs had not been decided last...
...news of Johnny Goodman's triumph over Ouimet, Omaha went wild with joy, planned a home-coming celebration, whether he won the final or not, for a home boy who had grown up "across the tracks" and made good. Like Ross Somerville he is now an insurance salesman. Somerville inherited an insurance business (plus a fortune) from his father. He had time and opportunity to become an all-round athlete in college (University of Toronto). His golf form was perfected by professionals in Scotland. Johnny Goodman learned as a caddy. Bashful, reticent, Somerville played throughout the tournament with...