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...doubtless never crossed the Prince's mind that he might get a hole-in-one. Nevertheless, after a swing a little smoother and a click a little firmer than usual, the ball soared straight to the apron of the green, rolled between two hummocks true to the pin and, with a little plop inaudible from the tee, went in. If the Prince was surprised, he was also justly proud. It was his second hole-in-one this season. The other went in on the Sao Vicente course in Brazil during his Empire Trade Tour. The Prince plays...
...dubbed a twelve-inch putt on the sixteenth, took a five instead of a four. This blunder, which would have destroyed the poise of most golfers, appeared to invigorate Von Elm. He played the seventeenth in four, put a mashie shot 15 feet wide of the pin on the eighteenth green and sank the putt, almost angrily, for the birdie and a 292 to match Burke...
...stroke behind, needed a three. Confident in the assumption that miracles?and a birdie on a tricky 325-yard last hole in the strain of an Open can be described as a miracle?never happen twice. Burke drove well, put his approach 30 feet from the pin, his approach putt three feet from the cup. Von Elm's pitch shot was twelve feet from cup. He studied the green, tapped the ball with the air of a man accustomed to miracles, watched it drop for another birdie, another...
...obsessed with a persecution mania, declaiming against imaginary slanderers: "I'd like to know who started all that talk. I'm sick and tired of it. I'd kick him around the town!" Equally extravagant are the tales about him. Once he stuck a pin in Frances Starr to get her to scream correctly. Once he took an axe to a set which Ina Claire had criticized. Once in Washington, he heard an audience wildly applauding at one of his shows, was bitterly vexed when he learned it was an ovation for President Wilson. Further evidence...
...Ayer had given him $750 and that he had recom- mended Ayer's son Gresham for a rural carriership, that he had received $800 from another source and procured the postmanship at Dale for S. Grant Johnson. But he insisted these receipts were not bribes. The Government prosecutor produced pin-pricked $100 bills used to trap Rowbottom. When after two hours' deliberation the jury found him guilty on four counts, Elizabeth Margaret Rohsenberger Rowbottom, his wife, fainted dead away...