davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
YoungstownskeÌ SlovenskeÌ noviny = Youngstown Slovak news. (Youngstown, Ohio) 1910-1940, 1931-07-10

tov jubilujucemu spolku. Kose
utesenych kvetin daily:
Spolok Sv. Amy, c. 80. I. X.
S. z. j. a jeho panensky od-
del c. 20. Kvietky s peknym
blahozelanfm oddali dietky j.
Farkasovsky a Katarinka Fa-
jos. Y
Spolok Sv. L 'udmily a jeho
panensky oddiel, Spolok Sv.
Cecflie. Kvety oddaly s pek-
nym vinsom dievcatka K. Kri-
spinsky, Conek a Maria No.
votny.
Odbor 46. Ziveny a jeho pa
nensky oddiel G. Is. Kvety od-
daily peknym blahozelanim
Margitka Foltynsky a Edward
Prokop.
Cislo 100. P. S. L. J. a jeho
panensky oddiel c. 146. Kvety
oddaly s krasnym blahozela-
MIN Anna Grancaj, Dorota
Faicak a Anna Stanovcak.
Cislo 161. P. S. Z. J. a jeho
panensky oddiel G. 151. Kve-
ty oddaly 81. L'udmila Steiner,
M'argitka Friedman a Andrej
Dinda. Krasne blahozelanie po-
vedala 81. Steinerova.
Odbor 8. N. S. S. Kvety od-
dali Margitka Foltynsky a Ed.
Prokop v sprievode krasneho
blahozelania.
Pc odovzdani kvetin, povstal
predseda Spolku Sv. Martina
a spravca jubilejnej slavnosti,
p. Jozef Martinko, ktory po-
vedal vyznamnu rec 0 jubilu-
jdcom spolku a ktor1 uverej-
nujeme ma inom mieste. Pred
stavil duchovneho osady Sv.
Cyrilla a Methoda co toast
majstra.
Rev. Begalla nakratko pri-
vital hostf a predstavil "a rec
nika jedneho 20 zakladaterov
a prveho starostu c. 10. M. O..
p. Jozefa Filipa. Pan Flip po-
dal zaujimavu historiu O TOM
to spolku, ktory boil zalozeny
16. aug. 1906 rs udami. O
zalozenie zaujal sa vtedajsi du
chovny osady Sv. Cyrilla Me-
thoda, Rev. Jan Becka. Pan
Flip boil starostom cd 1906 do
1915, "a ktord dobu prijal do
G. 10. M. O. $50 ddov. Prvym
dctovnikom Spolku Sv. ALOHA
bol terajsi duchovny osady Sv.
Cyrilla a Methoda, Rev. Ste
fan Begalla, takze je uz 25-
rocnym jednotarom. Cyril A
damko, terajsi zapisnik Spoil
ku Sv. ALOHA a syn starostu
tohto spolku, p. Andr. Adam
ku, oddal p. Filipovi Y sprie-
vode krasnej reci dar, "a ktory
sa D. Flip srdecne pod'akoval.
Nasledovnym recnikom bol
p. Juraj Vargo,. I. hi. podpred-
seda Penn. SLOW. K. j., a ME-
kdajsi Glen Spolku Sv. Marti-
ma. "Cislo 25. - hovoril - je
jedno z najlepsich v Jednote.
Ma dost' schopnych 1dov ma
zaplnenie celeho hlavneho L.
radu X. j. " tomto Cisle ST
knazi, pravotari, doktori, OBJ
chodnfci". Gratuloval zaklada-
tel'om j spolku a prial d'alsie.
ho zdaru.
Rev. Begalla predstavil ma.
to adv. Jana A. Willu, syna
zakladatel'a p. Michala Willu
J (Dokuneenie ma 4. strane.
YoungstownskeÌ SlovenskeÌ noviny = Youngstown Slovak news. (Youngstown, Ohio) 1910-1940, 1931-07-10
D6stojne oslavenie 40. vyrocia
zalozenia 6. rs. |. K. S. J.

cso TO- M O. K J. osavilo 25rocne ubleum .polosne
starsi spolubratmi prstpenim ku prmahiu chrame
Sv Cyrlla Methoda kde Rev. Begaa povedal krasnu ka
zen o K. j. - Po poboznosa ch die<y boly pohosene
Ma bankete NAL vel XII rec adv Jan A. Wo Spolky OBJ
sypay ublujdc pook Sv Martina kvetmi Program ban
ketu boil spestreny krasnym osadneho spevokou
hudbou oadne orchesry; tiez ssotancom ST. Vascaovych
YoungstownskeÌ SlovenskeÌ noviny = Youngstown Slovak news. (Youngstown, Ohio) 1910-1940, 1931-07-10

Celia Mahoning dolina bola
v nedel'u oblecena do sviatoc-
neho r1cha: Spolok Sv. Marti-
ma, Cfslo 25. I. K. S. J. Spo-
lok Sv. ALOHA, Cislo 10. M. O..
I. K. S. ]. slavily spolocne svo-
je vyrocia zalozenia - Spo-
lok Sv. Martina 40-rocne a
Spolok Sv. ALOHA 25-rocne.
Oba tieto spolky, dcinkujdce
pri osade Sv. Cyrilla a Metho-
da, su najstarslmi jednotarsky-
mi spolkami ma tomto okoli a
GO take su ctene a vazene vse-
tkymi mahoningskymi Slovak-
j. V nedel'u bol i sviatok sla-
vianskych apostolov sv. Cyril
la a Methoda, ktory boil tiez
zasvateny, takze bola to slav-
most trojiteho vyznamu.
Oba spolky v sobotu pristd-
PLY ku sv. spovedi a v nedel u
ma vel'kej sv. omsi, sllzenej "a
zijdce zomrele clenstvo tych-
to spolkov, ku sv. prijfmaniu.
Sv. omsu sllzil velp. Stefan
Begalla v chrame Sv. Cyrilla
a Methoda "a asistencie Rev.
Kocisa, Rev. Tondru a klerikov
slovenskych. Rev. Begalla pri
tel prilezitosti povedal krasnu
k&zen o I. K. S. Jednote, kto-
ra mnohych dojala. Chram Dol
preplneny ako clenstvom, tax
al osadnikmi.
Po bohosluzbach mladez 20
Spolku Sv. ALOHA shromazdila
sa v skole, kde bola pohostena
a kde k nej prehovoril hi. ta-
jomnik K. j., p. Jan Sabol ME-
kol'ko povzbudzuj1cich SLOW.
Vecer o 8. hodine zapocal
sa vo vel'kej skolskej sieni
slavnostny banket, ktoreho sa
zdcastnili knazi, mestski trad
nici, hi. lradnici IKSJ. a j.
nych slovenskych organizacii,
zastupcovia spolkov a miest-
nej slovenskej a anglickei tia
&c, a udstvo IKSJ. i IKSZJ.
Sien Nbola ku banketu vkusne
ozdobena a ma javisku bol w.
lozeny obraz zakladatel'a Jed
noty, Rev. Stefana Furdeka.
Ked' sa vsetci usadili, Rev.
Begalla predrieknul modlitbu,
"a ktorou muzsky spevokol D.
sadly Sv. Cyrilla a Methoda "a
spieval my Country" a ma
rodnd piesen 'Kto 81 Slovak".
Americku spievalo i obecen-
stvo.
Nasledovala chutna vecera,
ktora pozostavala z vypraza-
nych kurciat a prfslusnostf; /;
tiez boly krajovske kolace, "a
dova smotana a inc lah0dky, a
podavana bola sladka soda,
pivo, cigary cigarette. Kazdy
bol zaiste spokojny takou We
cerou i obsluhou. Veceru pri-
pravily manzelky clenov jubi-
lujlceho spolku a obsluhovaly
ich dcery. Pocas veceri, osad.
ma orchestra vyhravala sloven.
ske travnice. Orchestra spre.
vadzala ma. plane pani Anna
Pekarcikova, dcera predsedu
b. Joz. Martinko; spevokol di.
rigoval p. Michal Schromof.
sky a ma plane no sprevadzala
81. Dorota Schromofsky, dcera
obi 'dbeneho Slovaka a pracov'
nika, p. Jozefa Schromofske'
no.
Nasledovalo oddavanie kve'
YoungstownskeÌ SlovenskeÌ noviny = Youngstown Slovak news. (Youngstown, Ohio) 1910-1940, 1931-07-10
Program slavnosti Is. vyrocia
G. 519. a Is. vyrocia C.. 313.
M. O. K. J. " Campbell

oba spoky prsdpa sobotu spovedi nedelu k sv.
prmaniu Popoudni nede je jubiejna savnost slo-
vensko paru pr cintorine sadly Sv. Jana bu-
dd dvaja Ill., uradnc Jednoty Ill., nych organizsci
zasupcovia spokov Rev. ia Hamrak ditePom avno.
YoungstownskeÌ SlovenskeÌ noviny = Youngstown Slovak news. (Youngstown, Ohio) 1910-1940, 1931-07-10

- Ked' znate nieco, co by "a
ujimalo Slovakov, napfste to do
DaSich novln.
YoungstownskeÌ SlovenskeÌ noviny = Youngstown Slovak news. (Youngstown, Ohio) 1910-1940, 1931-07-10

cim nam bude praca vel mi
obi 'ahcena.
Redakcia a vydavatel'stvo
Youngst. Slov., Novin.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-19
St. Petersburg, Ha,, Mecca For
 Local Winter VucutiOuists
Many Waterbury People Registered at SubTropc Resort
 Last Season Expected to Return This Year

St Petersburg, Fla, Oct 19- tSpeciaD With the passing of au- tumnal october days thoughts ot Waterbury tourists and vacation lsts will again turn to Florida. its balmy and invigorating climate, its outdoor educational and recrea- tional facilities, its long calendar Of smart social activities. and it's annual introduction of fashionable styles to be worn in the ensuing spring months.
 Waterbury was exceptionally we'll represented here last winter, and most of the residents have al- ready made arrangements to return here for 8 gay, healthful and happy sojourn in the sub-tropics. Among the list of local names registered at the southern capitol were MT and Mrs Walter Ashborn, Mrs Mary Bandelier. MT and Mrs F. M. Booth. Mrs Eva Byan, Mir and Mrs Edward NJ. Byrne, Mrs E. G. Cone, Mrs Carrie Cutler. Mrs Ira Dick. Mrs Michael C. Donovan. Mrs E.. Farley. Frank Foster. w. H. Cor don.. Herman Greenberg. Charles W. Hall. Mrs Charles Hall. Mir and Mrs William A. Jenkins. Mrs M. E. Keeiey, MT and Mrs H. W. Lake. Elizabeth Fl. Lanctot. MT and Mrs Edward R. Lines.
 William B. Marks, Mrs Agnes C. Martus, Miss Betty Morrison. H. c. 0pdcke, c. B. Porter, Miss Janet A. Reed, Mir and Mrs Samuel N. Sehneer. Mrs A. o. Shepardson, Karl sporbert. Mrs A. c. sturrup, Mir and Mrs Wilfred N. Vallee.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-19

harder by advertising to popularize their own particular systems.
 Early in 1881 an organization known as Bridge Headquarters Inc, undertook to bring order out of the miX-up of bidding systems in the same way that the Whist Club brought order out of the scoring and playing rules in 1927. The or ganization work of standardizing bidding took several months but it has succeeded beyond all doubt. It is certain that in another few months there will not be a contrac bridge player in the United States who will not be thoroughly famll- jar with the standard and univcrs Il system of play, known as. the off cial System. The preliminary dis, cussion of conventions and the long minutes of wrangling and checking up on details are gone forever any partner can now play with any other partner.
 In tomorrow's article we will tell how Bridge Headquarters Inc or ganized the official System and who is back of it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-19

1 Karl Weiss, MT and Mrs D. L..
 Wheeler, Miss Clara Woodruff.
 Included among the notables of
 national and international fame
 who have made previous winter
 visits to St Petersburg, many of
 whom have made hotel reserva-
 tions for this season, are Major and
 Mrs John Coolidge, Governor John Gerland Pollard of Virginia; ex- Governor and Mrs Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia: ex-Governor and
 Mrs John Trumbull of Connecticut:
 General and Mrs Charles P. Sum merall. Randolph Churchill and his
 mother. Lady Winston Spencer Churchill of London; Roy Chap man Andrews. noted archaeologist
 Miss Martha Berry, founder of the Berry schools: General and Mrs Harry c. Trexler of Allentown, Pa; Rear Admiral and Mrs F. C. Bill ard of Washington: Richard Whit ney. president of the New York Stock exchange; Clarence Darrow. Mayor and Mrs John Boyd Thatch- CT of Albany, N. Y.; Rear Admiral Richard Edward Coontz. Rev Dr Lyman F. Powell, Major General George D. Squier of Washington; Captain Richmond r. Hobson, Spanish-American war hero; w. G. Stuber. president of the Eastman Kodack company, and Mrs Stuber of of Rochester: w. w. Mason, editor of Iron Age Frank Ros- took, president of the Cincinnati Post. and Mrs Rostook; Harold Weave. F. Scott McBride, super intendent of the anti-saloon league; Thomas Meighan and Opie Reed.
 Golf tournaments in which Amer lca's best still participate are a long seasonal calendar of interest Ing events to be held here this fall and winter, which also include polo games. long series of weekly out board motor races, yachting re- gattas. rogue, lawn bowling. shuffle board. archery. trapshooting. horse shoe and quoit pitching.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-19

Miss Mona Goldman of Walnut street, who is to be married next month to Philip Levine of New Haven was the guest of honor at a bridge given recently by Mir and Mrs Samuel Krasow and Mir and Mrs Joseph Eisenburg of Cooke street, Among the guests were: MT and Mrs Louis Raffel. Mir and Mrs Rosenzwieg, Mir and Mrs Aaron Brown, Mir and Mrs Morris Wolozin. Mir and Mrs Noah Seymon of Bristol. MT and Mrs Harry Raf- fel, MT and Mrs Harry Bloch, MT and Mrs Mnnis Krasow, Mr and Mrs Joseph Eisenberg. Mrs Bluma Seymon, Mrs Masone, Mir and Mrs Joseph Goldman, MT and Mrs Samuel Krasow. Misses Esther Dressler of New Haven, Betty Goldman, Joseph Krasow, Attorney Harry. Krasow, Philip Levine. and Joseph Tielman. Those making high score were Miss Mona Gold man, Mrs Rosenzweig. Mrs Louis Raffel. Mrs Minnis nrasow. Mrs Harry Browne, and Mir Bloch.
 Frank and Anthony Sacco of New York visited at their home on south View street over the week. end.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-19
SOCIAL

MT and Mrs Leo Murray of Everett, Mass, were guests of Mrs Murray's sister, Mrs Ambrose T. Guilfoile and Mir Guiifoile of Earl street over the weekend.
 Mir and Mrs Frank Delaney Of New York spent the weekend with Mrs Delaney's parents, Mir and Mrs Albert Rosenbeck of South Elm street.
 MT and Mrs Robert s. Walker of Fiske street are registered al the National Bridge hotel at Nat ural Bridge, Virginia.
 Dr J. H. Green of North Main street has returned from Philadei- phia where he spent the weekend attending the Clinical Conference of the New England Pediatric so ciety, the Pediatric Section or the New York Academy of Medicine and the Philadelphia PediatrIc so- ciety.
 The following delegates of the Waterbury Women's club will at tend the state meeting to be heii at the MeTlueH SOuillIy Siub A' Mer.den on Wednesday,: Mrs John c. Bradley, Mrs Herman Rooster Mrs John H. Foster. Mrs Lawren 2 G. Bean, Mrs Bertram Bailey. Mrs J. W. Pratt, Mrs Horace Purinton Mrs Arthur Purinton, Mrs Joel L. Butler, and Mrs w. B. StouGhtoh. Other members who will attend art Mrs F. ]. Rockwell. Mrs William S,ator. Mrs s. J. Marsh and Mrs Garfield Wells.
 There will be meeting of the board of directors of the Beth Ei Synagogue tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock Mrs Saul Rhodes. chairman of the board, will pre- side. The hostesses will be Mrs W. Albert and and Mrs Morr's Kosersky. appointed hostesses for the month.
 Miss Helen E. Chase of Grove street is registered at the Edge water Beach hotel at Chicago for a few days
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-19

Contract bridge in the United States is comparatively new. 1t was brought here from abroad just five years ago and almost i'm. mediately it achieved nationai prominence. Bridge p CT throughout the country were uuick to note it's great improve ment over auction in that highly skilful bidding is required at all times. defensive play becomes as important as offensive play, and proportionate penalties are evoked for inability to estimate the strength of the hand or to obtain the full value during the play of the hand.
 Contract suffered at the expense of auction in it's first year or so in this country because 1t was not dc- companied by any determined set of laws to govern the scoring. or the play. When first introduced here there were several variations of play. to which we with great originality added several more. At each club contract was played or scored differently and hardly d game was played without long and Involved parleys on which rules were to be used and which customs or scoring methods were to be fol lowed. The situation was some what similar to backgammon which has become popular again In the past year or two with sev- eral variations in style of play.
 Order came out of chaos quickly enough in 1927 when the Laws Of Contract Bridge set down by the
 Hist CluL in New York were recognized nationally as authorita- tive. The Whist Club had long been established as the law-makins body for auction bridge and no time was lost in recognizing this authority as final. Other laws and regulations disappeared.
 So much for the rules and SCOT ing of contract. With it's new unity the game progressed by leaps and bounds. It became so popular that auction was fast disappearing
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-19

altogether. Experts and teachers everywhere did a land-office busl- ness teaching players the intrlcacies of bidding the new game. But each expert evolved his own idea of teaching the new style of bid ding, so that by 1880 there came to be almost as many conventions and styles of bidding contract bridge as there were experts.
 Conventions became popular overnight in contract. At a bridge club one convention was used one night-the next week another had become popular; a man played ac- cording to Work, or LenZ, or van derbilt, Whitehead or Culbertson, but usually according to his own notions or to confused conception of the various conventions which he happened to know.
 From the confusion of many sys- tems it became apparent that about six or eight might survive from those based on the soundest prinoi- ples and getting the most publicity It got down to the point when you asked your partner if he played the two-demand, the one-two-three, the one-over-one, or the approach forcing. But even eliminatirs down to a half dozen systems did little good, for it took a good fif teen minute talk with your partner previous to the play before you and he reached agreement as to just which conventions you would follow in whatever system you chose to play. Details which seemed minute or unimportant arose later wholly unprovided for and caused serious disagreement; in play, sometimes total disrup- iton.
 The authorities realized that contract was suffering from a lack of unanimity, but while each hoped that the others would come to see things his way no one ex- pert was willing to drop the pet features of his system for the com mon good. The better known among the experts tried all the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-19
PROBLEM NO. 1 No Score toward a game NS Tn,narn I1In

MS Vulnerable.
 FEW Vulnerable.
 S-QJ1O4
 H-9S732
 D-5
 C-A76 S-962 S-S73 H-Q \ H-K1 WE D-AJ1O95. C-KJ854 s cps
 S-AK5
 H-AJ1O65
 D-Q3
 C-1O32
 CONDITIONS OF THE
 CONTEST 1. Bid the hand at Contract Bridge, using any system of bidding you prefer. South bids first.
 ?. Tn sending your answer indicate the system of bidding used.
 3. State the number of tricks that can be won at the final declaration, and one or lHOre Nltdl ledluTeS or the Dlu- ding or play or both. 4. Do not send your an- swers in until ten problems have appeared, then send then in to
 Contest Editor
 Bridge Headquarters, Inc. 2S5 Madison Avenue,
 New York, N. Y. 5. In making your bids, do not be influenced by the other hands. Bid on VALUES of each hand, as to the require ments for making opening bids, defensive bids, take-outs or assists.
 6. Ten gilt edge copies of the book THE OFFICIAL SYSTEM OF CONTRACT BRIDGE" specially autographed will be given as prizes for the ten best answers to these twelve prob lems.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-19
evolvedthe Bridge unity of

trought the week
 @ f t the  day
Evening star., 1931-06-17
ArmOur's Entrance Into Pro
Ranks Turning Point of His
Career, Bobby Jones Asserts

Certainly Armour did not make much
headway until he left the amateur
ranks. He turned pro think in accept
ing a prize in one of the Texas Winter
tournaments, and that same year he
scored his first big victory in one of the
Florida tournaments. Handicapped by
impaired vision in one eye, 1t must have
taken q lot Of determination to keep
on working on that drive and putt.
A Sudden Change.
It looks almost as though the thing
came to him more or less suddenly.
I played with Armour almost daily
througout one Winter season in Florida
when we were both in Sarasota, and
while he was q very great iron player
then. he was still far from being the
golfer he Is now. During that Winter
he did get his putting pretty well
Strengthened out through constant ex-
perimenting with different clubs and
strokes, but his driving continued to be
uncertain. particularly when he was
getting tired. We played q lot OF
36-hole 4-ball matches as partners
against combinations like Sarazen-Die-
gel, Farrell-Barnes and Hagen-Nlchols,
and in one against Sarazen and Diegel.
Tommy's driving went so to pieces after
the turn in the afternoon that he hit
not one fairway on the last nine. And
he was in very nearly that condition
when he left Sarasota in April OF 1925.
I played a practice rounds with him at
Columbus before the national open that
year, and although he went around IN
So he had only marvellous putting to
thank for his score.
Adds Needed Asset.
What Armour did between July. 1925,
and June, 1927, / do not know, but
within that period he added the only
thing that was needed to make him
really great golfer-he found somewhere
powerful and reliable drive. OF
course the courageous finish which he
made in holing 10-foot putt for a
birdie on the last hole to tie
Harry Cooper is q well known bit OF
history, but the thing that remember
best about Armour in that tournament
was his driving in the play-off. Cooper
himself Is, and was at that time, q
powerful driver, vet Armour was con-
sistently ahead OF him of the tee and
was far the straighter Of the two.
Since that time 1t has been hard to
pick q flaw in Tommy's game, A fine
driver, probably the best iron player in
the world. and q good putter about
Evening star., 1931-06-17
WOMAN GOLF STARS
LIKE THE NEW BALL
25 Out Of 4S Southern Players,
However, Vote for Old One
at Virginia Beach.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va, June IT,
Leaders among Southern woman golfers
favor the new and larger golf ball, al
though proponents of the smaller ball
slightly outnumbered the others among
% players from whom opinions were
obtained at the recent tournament.
Mrs. Marion Turpie Lake, New Or
leans, who won the championship,
favors the new ball. The champion
says she finds no fault with 1t.
Mrs. Ruth Raymond, New Orleans,
runner-up in the women's tournament,
says she also likes the new ball, though
she thinks it more diff1cult to manage
on the green.
The 1881 standard ball is also favored
by Virginia Holzderber of Baltimore,
the tournament medalist; by the two
semi i-finalists, Mrs. Harry c. Dodge of
Jacksonville and Mrs. Leon Solomon of
Memphis; Mrs. David Gaut, the deposed
champion: Miss Helen Waring of Pine
hurst. Mrs. Kennon Rodwell of Norfolk
and Miss Margaret Maddox Of Atlanta.
Out of 48 players from whom opin-
IONS were obtained. % favored the new
ball and IS the old
Evening star., 1931-06-17
BOWLING LEAGUE MEETS

A meeting Of the bowling league Of
the Holy Name Union Of Washington
will be held tonight In the parish hall
of the Church of the Holy Comforter,
Fifteenth and East Capitol streets, at
8 o'clock.
Plans will be outlined for next season
and q constitution adopted. Those
parishes which already have become
members Of the league follow: ST.
Peters, st. Anthony's, Holy Comforter,
st. Pauls and Holy Rosary. Other
parishes have been invited to send del
.egateS to the meeting tonight.
The present officers Of the league are
George F. Harbin, president; J. Ed
wards Weeks. vice president; r. F. Hard
ley, secretary; Francis Breen, recording
secretary, and Joseph Mccarthy, treas
urer.
The duckpin loop is sponsored by the
Washington section Of the Baltimore
Archdiocesan Union Of the Holy Name
Societies.
Evening star., 1931-06-17
BY BoBRY JONES.

(American Open and American Amateur
ChAmpion.)
IN reviewing Tommy Armour's great
victory in the recent British open
golf championship, I cannot help
thinking that Tommy deserves q
little bit more than the usual amount
Of credit, not merely for his play In
this particular tournament, but for the
all-round and consistent excellence Of
the game which he has developed for
himself. Armour has not reached his
present position without whole lot Of
hard work, and I think that that fact
ought not to be overlooked.
1t was in the year 1920 that Armour
made his first appearance in America,
playing in our amateur championship
that year at the Engineers Club, on
Long Island. He was a very stylish
player then, with Q very fast, decisive
stroke which was pretty hard to watch.
But he was not great golfer by any
means. His iron play was above what
we might call the f1rst-flight average,
but his wood clubs frequently let him
down and his putting was very weak.
He played in few of the champion
ships succeeding after 1920 without
ever attaining any outstanding sue
cesses. In other words, when he first
came over he was just good amateur
golfer.
Become Clever Pros.
It Is O strange thing that q number
Of men who later made enviable
names for themselves as professional
golfers earlier played in amateur compe-
titions without making much headway,
and this although their amateur oppo-
sition was considerably weaker than
that which they encountered In the pro-
feSsional field.
Abe Mitchell made several unsuccess-
full attempts upon the British amateur
| and q few years later was recognized
as Great Britain'S leading professional,
and one Of the greatest players in the
world. And then young Denny Shute
failed to make . showing in either anna
teur or open events until he became
pro, since which time he has had his
| share Of prizes, and has figured promi-
nently in at least two national opens.
suppose 1t must be that more time for
practice and for giving thought to the
game has been what these men needed.