Edition |
First edition. |
Description |
xiii, 303 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [301]-303). |
Summary |
John Montague was a boisterous enigma. He had a bagful of golf tricks, on and off the course. He could knock a bird off a wire from 170 yards, and when the big man arrived in Hollywood in the early 1930s, he quickly became a celebrity among celebrities. He played golf with everyone from Howard Hughes to Babe Ruth and his close friend Bing Crosby, whom he famously beat with only a rake, a shovel, and a bat. Yet strangely Montague never entered a professional tournament, and he never allowed his image to be captured on film. When a photographer snapped his picture with a telephoto lens, police in upstate New York recognized him as a fugitive wanted for armed robbery. As Montague was indicted, hordes of national media descended and turned a star-studded legal carnival into the most talked about trial of its day. -- From publisher description. |
Subject |
Montague, John, 1903-1972.
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Golfers -- California -- Los Angeles -- Biography.
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Criminals -- New York (State) -- Biography.
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ISBN |
9780385520331 |
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0385520336 |
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