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Article: Bobby Jones, Golf, and His Instructional Reels
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- Film & History
- Article date:
- July 1, 2005
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CopyrightCopyright Historians Film Committee 2005. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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The 1920s has been called the Golden Age of American Sport; the decade produced some of the most respected, honored, and cherished sports heroes that Americans have ever seen. As veteran sports reporters Allison Danzig and Peter Brandwein noted in 1948, "Never before, nor since, have so many transcendent performers arisen contemporaneously in almost every field of competitive athletics as graced the 1920s" (xi). The 1920s major sports' heroes became athletic fountainheads: George Herman "Babe" Ruth in baseball, William "Jack" Dempsey in boxing, Harold "Red" Grange in football, William T. "Big Bill" Tilden in tennis, and Robert T. "Bobby" Jones in golf.
Like today, the 1920s public ...