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Canadian golfer
A.K.A.
Albert Edison Austin
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Male
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Birth:
1 November 1888(Winnipeg, Winnipeg Capital Region, Manitoba, Canada)
Death:
April 1913(Pompano Beach, Broward County, Florida, U.S.A.)
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Father:
Albert William Austin
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Biography
Albert Edison "Bertie" Austin (November 1, 1888 – 1913) was a Canadian Olympic athlete. He was the son of Albert W. Austin, a prominent businessman and founder of the Lambton Golf and Country Club.
He grew up in Winnipeg, where his father ran the streetcar system. The family later moved to Toronto, and Bertie spend the later part of his youth at Spadina House, today a museum.
Bertie, his father, and club champion George Lyon traveled to St Louis for the 1904 Olympics. The Olympics in this era were more casual, and to participate one merely needed to show up and pay the entry fee. Bertie finished 65th of 75 competitors, but Lyon went on to win the Gold medal.
Bertie died of tuberculosis at the age of 24 in Pompano Beach, Florida.