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y all accounts the Christmas hope that all have survived B dinner was a success. If you I New Year’s Eve celebrations were absentabsent————tootoo bad. We still and are prepared for the new had a great time but it may have year. The club’s new year will been even better had you been consist of having all of you paying 9 11 ̴ WE WILL NEVER FORGET in attendance. your dues ASAP, having you 2011 Club Officers Which brings us to attendance. spend a little time supporting Club meeting attendance to be club activities and, perhaps, fill President precise. I’ve pleaded with you a post of the club’s officers. James Sauer ...... 408.445.2694 On the pot-pourrie page I’ve [email protected] and threatened you in trying to increase attendance at meetings. initiated a new monthly feature Vice President Well, no more. While I want all of of favorite and/or beautiful stamps. David Occhipinti . . . . . 408.723.0122 you to attend, I’m not going to I have many, but I want to know

Secretary say anymore about it. I will give some of yours. It won’t take much,

David Gilman ...... 408.264.1953 the club another year to come up just give me the Scott number [email protected] with new officers for the club and and why you like it and I’ll do

Treasurer a new editor for the newsletter. the rest. Please take a moment

Richard Clever ...... 408.238.0893 Filatelic Fiesta has a very bright and share your choice with the [email protected] future as the present committee membership. Also, I need Covers

Newsletter Editor is very active and energetic. The of the Month and I KNOW you must have at least one that is James Sauer ...... 408.445.2694 SJSC on the other hand has a very [email protected] dismal future as the membership special. Thanks. As mentioned previously, I’m Filatelic Fiesta General Chairman is very lazy. No one wants to serve as an officer nor will you going to start having coffee and Steve Schumann . . . 510.785.4794 [email protected] do anything else to help. This hot water for tea at the meetings. however can be changedchanged————it’sit’s There’ll be some kind of munchies Exhibits Chairman up to the membership. of which I will supply for January. Dr. Edward Laveroni . . 408.356.7561 Think about it, we’ve had the The club has no money to speak Bourse Chairman same officers for over a decade of to reimburse so I’m asking that

Wayne Menuz ...... 408.265.5539 with exception of VP and that someone volunteer in January would not have changed had to supply February’s treats, and Visit our website at: Jack Brady not passed away. At so on through the year — and that we went without a VP for no cheap stuff! many months. filatelicfiesta.org Chuck Fissel So, no more. No more asking, Founded 1927, Club show since 1928 ststst rdrdrd begging or threatening. Really t was great seeing Chuck at Meets 7:00 PM, 1 & 3 Wednesdays rdrdrd no more caring whether or not the Christmas pot-luck and Hilltop Manor in 3 floor dining room I 790 Ironwood Drive, San Jose, California the club improves or not. At the hope to continue seeing him at Driving instructions on the website. end of 2012 it will have gotten the meetings. For those that Annual dues: better or it will cease to exist. don’t know, Chuck lost his wife, Adults/families $12 ~ Youths $6 On a brighter note, I wish to Vicenta, after a long illness for APS chapter # 02640264----025791025791 This run of the newsletter thank all of you that attend the which we offer our sincerest commenced January 1998. club meetings regularly. You’re condolences. Vicenta was a Correspondence to: the reason we’ve survived this sweet lady who will be missed P O Box 730993, San Jose, CA 95173 far. Perhaps I should just be by all that knew her. We wish her Contents thankful for those that attend and God Speed and Rest in Peace. just not concern myself with those PotPot----pourriepourrie ...... 2 that don’tdon’t————itit would likely lower Leica and the Jews ...... 3 my blood pressure too. Francis DeSales Ouimet ...... 4 For those that do care, we will

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Show Calendar, Want ads ...... 8 at the second monthly January meeting.

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The best kind of friend is the kind you sit with, never say a word and walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you e ver had. Francis DeSales Ouimet President Gerald Ford — an enthusiastic, if sometimes erratic, golfer himself — along with Ford’s own s sports writer Red Smith told it, one day in 1912 letter of support. Former House Speaker “Tip” Theophilus England Niles, managing editor of A O’Niell also lent his influence, as did Representative The New York Evening Mail , called assistant sports William D. Ford of Michigan, who as chairman of editor Francis Albertani into his office and asked the House Post Office and Civil Service Committee why golf got no space in The Mail . was able to get USPS’ attention when he cleared “It’s an important game,” Niles said, “Very his throat. important with the Wall Street crowd.” Gene Sarazen, for one, credits Ouimet’s 1913 “Then put it on the financial page,” Albertini said. Open victory for inspiring his own career. “I was A year later, a 20-year-old American named then only a boy of 13, and I was caddying,” he Francis Ouimet amazed and excited Americans by wrote. “I remember hearing about Ouimet and beating two veteran English professionals, Harry deciding right then and there to follow in his footsteps.” Vardon and Ted Ray, for the United States Open Sarazen had plenty of company. In 1913 fewer Championship at The Country Club in Brookline, than 350,000 Americans played golf; 10 years Massachusetts. That victory by a “common man” later, two million were playing — and the game over two of the world’s greatest players changed has continued to grow in popularity ever since. forever Americans’ perception of the game as a Francis Ouimet (pronounced “WE-met”), son pastime for the privileged. of a French-Canadian immigrant gardener, was born May 8, 1893, in Brookline, and lived across the street from the old 17th green of the Country Club. His interest was piqued by the stray balls found as he crossed the fairways on the way to school. Ouimet won scholastic and amateur tournaments as a teenager and entered the U.S. Open in 1913, the year it came to his home course. A slightly gawky young man who played in a white shirt with four-in-hand tie, a checkered cap, rumpled jacket and unpressed trousers, he attracted no attention when he teed off for the first of two days of qualifying play. The large field was divided for this purpose, and Vardon and Ray each led his division, as The Francis Ouimet stamp, Scott 2377, issued June 13, 1988. expected. But Ouimet finished only one stroke Within a few years, wrote Red Smith, Ouimet, behind Vardon. The tournament proper consisted along with two other young men named Walter of 72 additional holes, 36 each day. After 54 holes Hagen and Bobby Jones, “would put golf in headlines in intermittent rain, Vardon and Ray were tied at even on the sports pages of The Evening Mail .” 225 — but with them, at the same score, was the On June 13, 1988 , at The Country Club, where young man from across the road. the U.S. Open had returned in the 75th anniversary At the end of the final round the two Englishmen year of the great upset of 1913, USPS issued a were still tied, at 304. Ouimet had run into trouble 25¢ stamp in its American Sports series to honor early, and after 12 holes was 10 over par. But Francis DeSales Ouimet. he got two birdies he needed on the last six to In the design, Ouimet is identified as “U.S. Open score his own 304 and elbow his way into the Champion, 1913.” This addition of a descriptive next day’s playoff. phrase — the first time it was done on a Sports It was chilly and drizzling at 10 a.m. when the series stamp — was an acknowledgement that threesome left the first tee. Each man shot 38 Ouimet, despite the key role he played in for the first nine. The break came on the 10th, popularizing golf, is a relatively unfamiliar figure when Ouimet took a one-stroke lead. On the to modern-day Americans. 12th, he doubled it, Vardon won back a stroke on The stamp had been requested by the Francis 13, but on 15 Ray’s double-bogey six left him D. Ouimet Caddie Scholarship Fund. The fund three shots behind, and Ray fell back another credited the success of its three-year effort to stroke on 16. the persistence of its Commemorative committee On 17 it was Vardon’s turn to falter. He drove chairman, Robert M. Jenney. into a fairway trap (it’s still known as the “Vardon Jenney obtained the help of the seven living Bunker”), took two more shots to the green and members of the World Golf Hall of Fame: Patty two-putted. But on the 18th green Ouimet sank Berg, Ben Hogan, Byron Nelson, Jack Nicklaus, a short putt for a 72 and the victory, five strokes Arnold Palmer, Gene Sarazen and Sam Snead. under Vardon, six under Ray. The games leading They signed a petition for the stamp, which was historian, Herbert Warren Wind, would later forwarded to the postmaster general by former describe that playoff, September 20, 1913, as the Page 4 San Jose Stamp Club Newsletter January 2012 to manyto many as asopposed opposed to tothe theprivileged privileged few. few. U.S. Amateur title in 1914 and again 17 years years 17 again and prime. his past be to thought was he when later, 1914 in the win title did he Amateur but U.S. Ouimet again, Open the won membership. never formal he to until elevated annually was renewed was waiver the and privilege of the golf course without dues for a yea“the caddy former its granted Club Country The played.” ever of golf round important most “the stamps in the American sports series, in 1981, 1981, in series, honored golfsports stars Babe ZahariasAmerican andthe Bobby in Jones. stamps 1977 in two first the and envelope itself, game the commemorated item stamped golf A USPS. fourth by the issued was stamp Ouimet The to $4.7 million, to hundreds of high school amounting granted scholarships, student college 7,800 than has more fund the , existence of years 39 its In fund. the to going proceeds the all with tags, bag annual display all and buy Golfers Massachusetts over 1949. in founded Fund, Scholarship Caddie Ouimet the in perpetuated ie name His 1967. 2, September on attack heart a of later years four died He chairman. honorary 75th the was in 70, then be of Ouimet, 1988. would of year it year anniversary as just — Brookline anniversary at 50th held again was Open the the Victory, Open in Ouimet’s 1963, In U.S. Open, changed the game forever and brought the brought and forever game the changedOpen, U.S. FrancisDeSalesofcardOuimetupsetofwinner Post U.S. Open, changed the game forever and brought the brought and forever game the changedOpen, U.S. FrancisDeSalesofcardOuimetupsetofwinner Post to manyto many as asopposed opposed to tothe theprivileged privileged few. few. 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Invest in yourself —if you have confidence in yourself. —William Feather were attempts made at bribing Eddie to give up the bag to no avail. Francis Ouimet, forever the gentleman, simply replied, “No thank you. I’ll stick with Eddie.” Most would have been willing to stick with a 1 eyed, 3 legged dog if he caddied us into contention to win a U.S. Open. A 10 year old boy with an injured foot was like a dream come true. Well, be damned, then he goes out and becomes the 1st amateur and only the second American to win the US Open, and with a 10 year old caddy at that! Needless to say when the final putt dropped the place went wild ! The marker for Francis in this "Game of Golf" was none other than Bernard Darwin considered by many as the best golf writer of all time. His description of the event is direct and to the point, "The most momentous win in all golfing history." The stuffed shirts of the USGA and The Country Club of Brookline, Massachusetts must have been ready to explode. Some punk caddie poor-boy, a gentleman no less, accepts our token invitation to play in the US Open, and then goes out with that rascal of a caddie and wins the damned thing beating the two best golfers in the world in a 3-way playoff. Well vengeance had to be gotten somehow, thus the revoking of his amateur status? Prior to his Photo on the cover of A game of Golf . amateur status being revoked he went on to win the 1914 US Amateur and became the first person ever The humbleness of this kind and thoughtful to win both the US Amateur and US Open titles. gentleman is refreshing in this day and age. A Well bite me. To prove the utter nonsense of the visit to the Francis Ouimet Museum in Norton, MA USGA ruling and its purely political motivations, might also be worth your time. Some of the golf they had to reverse their decision in 1918 after clubs used by Francis Ouimet in the 1913 U.S. Open Francis proved himself invaluable to his country are on display at USGA Museum. during WWI, that along with public and political Francis is the first inductee into the Golf Ball pressure, caused the reversal to take place. In a Factory Hall of Champions. show of class beyond what is even thinkable Francis Ouimet did not bear any grudge against the USGA, and over the years served on several major USGA committees, including honorary chair of the 1963 US Open played at The Country Club.

The Caddie Strikes Gold

With Francis not collecting any winner’s purse in the US Open, he had no money to pay Eddie Lowery, his caddy. Harry Vardon and Ted Ray passed the hat amongst those in the gallery to collect some tip money for Eddie Lowery. (Interesting note is that Arthur Ouimet, Francis's dad, who did not approve of Francis playing golf, was the first to drop in a dollar.) They ended up collecting more money than the entire winning purse of the US Open, giving Eddie a major financial jumpstart in his career. (Check out the expression on Eddie's face on the cover of “A Game of Golf”.) Eddie's life story turned out to more than interesting as he not only became a top business man but a Massachusetts Amateur Golfing Champion and highly ranked member of the USGA as well. The Francis Ouimet story is one of the best in American Golf. If you wish to learn more, we Francis Ouimet and Caddy during the 1913 US Open. suggest you read “The greatest Game Ever Played” or A Game of Golf” written by Francis himself. From Linn’s U.S. Stamp Yearbook , 1988 and the internet. Page 6 San Jose Stamp Club Newsletter January 2012 1949 and sold by the Committee of Cultural Works (n printedwith collars paying tribute tothe Seventy- to find one genuinely used as postage — what a show a — what postage as used genuinely one find to shor in were and postage for valid not were they as hinged. never all are Mine stamps. beautiful these are illustrated four The UPU. the of members most annive 75th the attracted particularly I’m one. am Today, they are avidly sought by collectors of t of collectors by sought avidly are they Today, I

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