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...Dallas, Tex., Professional Harry Cooper scorned the 36 putts that par allows a man on 18 greens. He putted only 23 times, scored a 60 over the Tenison links. This shattered Walter Hagen's "U. S. low-score record" of 62, hung up in Florida two years ago. The "world's record," a 56 credited to George Duncan of England for a round in the Swiss Open Championship of 1913, still stood...
...said of himself that he played the best tennis that he has ever played at Chicago. Sandy Wiener of Germantown, Pa., protege of Tilden, lived up to his patron's hopes by taking the Junior Championship 10-12, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 from Berkeley Bell of Austin, Tex...
Dempsey. Last week, Heavyweight Champion William Harrison Dempsey signed a contract with promoter Tex Rickard to fight two bouts with whomsoever Rickard should select-one bout this year, one next He agreed to post a "good faith" guarantee of $100,000. His first opponent will be Gene Tunney, pretty onetime marine, George Godfrey, Philadelphia Negro, or Jack Renault, lumberjack-in-the-box. Then, if not defeated, he will face patient Harry Wills. "Will you retire if you beat Wills?" asked a reporter. Said Dempsey: "Not me! I'm going to fight until somebody knocks me from under the gilded...
Theology emanating from Gainesville, Tex., tickled the ear of the musical press last week. The Gainesville despatch in part...
...father, a millhand, said Frank would save towards college. Elimination bees in different cities had thinned out the competitors to nine state champions, who laughed to hear the cinchy words they began the finals with-"catch, black, grant, warm." First to drop out was Almeda Pennington of Houston, Tex., who slipped up on "skittish." "Scittish," Almeda spelled it. Mary Coddens, the little Belgian girl from South Bend, Ind., was next. She has spoken English only five years, but never faltered until she mixed "cosmos," the universe with "cosmas," a flower. Loren Mackey, the bass-voiced Oklahoma boy, followed Mary...