Sport: At Oakmont

The good green-gangsters who manicured, shampooed and mud-massaged the course of the Oakmont Country Club (Pittsburgh) for the last week's National! Amateur Golf Championship were exceptional fellows. They entertained a lively interest in the sport. They knew all about Robert Tyre Jones, Jr.—may even have known, indeed that his father, a Georgia lawyer, is associated in business with William Gunn, father of Watts Gunn, the 20-year old youth whom Jones brought North to the tournament to "get some experience in championship play."

The waiters at the Oakmont Club, on the other hand,...

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