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...named George S. Lyon to make a bid for the U. S. amateur championship. He was stopped in the finals by Eben Byers, who died last spring of radium-water poisoning (TIME, April 11). That was the nearest Canada ever came to the title until last week when Charles Ross Somerville of London, Ont. emerged at the head of a field of 154 starters at Five Farms near Baltimore. After the first round of match play, Robert Tyre Jones Jr., an observer in a gallery of 4,000, picked the sandy-haired, moose-nosed Canadian for the title. Meanwhile near...
While Ouimet was squeezing into the semi-finals for the ninth time in his career by trimming Medalist Fischer with a 12-ft. putt on the last hole, another Bostonian, giant Jesse Guilford, was eliminating Chick Evans, title-holder in 1916 and 1920, 5 & 4. Ross Somerville defeated Boston's William O. Blaney 6 & 5 and Johnny Goodman, who unexpectedly whipped Bobby Jones in the first round at Pebble Beach in 1929, put out Maurice McCarthy...
...into the semifinals, and for the first 18 holes of his match, he out-golfed Johnny Goodman. In the afternoon Ouimet was obviously worn out, and Goodman took the match 4 & 2. Despite the driving of Siege Gun Guilford-he almost drove the green on the 349-yard 7th-Ross Somerville won his match...
...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...
...Nations is sole custodian of our report." Mrs. McCoy & Spy- Privately members of the League Commission are telling friends about fun they constantly had with Japanese spies, even in China. The story goes that in Peiping Mrs. Frances Judson McCoy, wife of the U. S. member, General Frank Ross McCoy, entered her hotel bedroom, caught a servant red handed in the act of "dusting." "Splendid!" cried Mrs. McCoy. "The room is dirty isn't it? I am so glad you are dusting! Now get a mop and mop the floor." For two long hours the Japanese spy scrubbed, kept...