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The mysterious Montague : a true tale of Hollywood, golf, and armed robbery

Montville, Leigh

Overview

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.

• Publisher: Anchor Books, a division of Random House, Inc.
• Subject: Montague, John, 1903-1972. / Golfers California Los Angeles Biography. / Criminals New York (State) Biography.
• ISBN: 9780767926508, 0767926501

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
GV964.M543 M66 2009	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE