It would be ridiculous to call Francis Ouimet old. He is 38, walks with a limber stride and the voice in which he speaks with a clear Bostonian accent has not yet begun to crack or quaver. Nonetheless, there was more justification than usual for the exaggerations of sportwriters who last week would have considered it a breach of etiquet to use his name without calling him a ''veteran" and whose descriptions varied in opprobrium from "hoary warrior" to "old trapper." Ouimet was the oldest qualified contestant in the national amateur golf...
To continue reading:
or
Log-In
