Ebook: The mysterious Montague: a true tale of Hollywood, golf, and armed robbery
Author: Montague John, Montville Leigh
- Tags: Criminals--New York (State), GAMES--Gambling--Sports, Golfers--California--Los Angeles, SPORTS & RECREATION--Business Aspects, SPORTS & RECREATION--Essays, SPORTS & RECREATION--Golf, SPORTS & RECREATION--History, SPORTS & RECREATION--Reference, TRAVEL--Special Interest--Sports, Criminals, Golfers, Biography, Biographies, Montague John -- 1903-1972, Golfers -- California -- Los Angeles -- Biography, Criminals -- New York (State) -- Biography, SPORTS & RECREATION -- Golf, GAMES -- Gambling -- Sports, SPORTS & RE
- Year: 2008
- Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- City: New York;California;Los Angeles;New York (State
- Language: English
- epub
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.
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