Word: pinehurst
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Genial, 70-year-old ex-Attorney General Homer Stille Cummings invited 40 of his cronies as usual to play in the 16th annual Homer S. Cummings Golf Tournament at Pinehurst, N. C., then beat the lot for the second successive year. Prepared for this contingency, Champion Cummings got sleek, smart little onetime Ambassador Joseph E. Davies, ex-Ambassador to Belgium and to Russia, now assistant at the State Department, to present him with his own trophy...
...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...