Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 8, Number 32, DeMotte, Jasper County, 7 July 1938 — Golf Champion of Today Sees World of Tomorrow [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Golf Champion of Today Sees World of Tomorrow

NEW YORK —Upon their return from England the American Golf Team inspected the grounds and buildings of the New York World’s Fair 1939. Grover A. Whalen, President of the Fair Corporation, presented Charles Yates, winner of the British Amateur Championship, with a scroll and appointed him a member

of the Fair’s Advisory Committee on Sports with this remark: “We are very happy to take the golf champion of today into the World of Tomorrow —the New York World’s Fair 1939.” In the picture, left to right, are Mr. Whalen, Mr. Yates with trophy, and Francis Ouimet, captain of tjie team.

A group of friends from Atlanta, Georgia, the home town of Yates, accompanied him to the Fair grounds. In this group were George B. Hamilton, Treasurer of the State of Georgia. James D. Robinson, President of the. First National Bank of Atlanta, Thomas B. Paine, James C. Malone, and O, B. Keeler,