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Nov 01, 1888 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Died on 01 Jan 0001 (aged 1887)
Canadian golfer
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About Bertie Austin
- Albert Edison "Bertie" Austin (November 1, 1888 – February 5, 1913) was a Canadian Olympic athlete.
- He was the second 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 spent the latter part of his youth living at Spadina House, today a museum. Bertie, his father, and Lambton club champion George Lyon traveled to St.
- Louis for the 1904 Olympics.
- The Olympics in that 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 Cairo, Egypt.
