Word: ball
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...went down behind the rolling meadows of Kentucky one evening last week and an almost full moon sailed up over Maysville. Verl Stinchcomb, Maysville Country Club professional, started out to play nine holes of nocturnal golf, with two club members tagging along. The flight of a golf ball cannot be followed even in full moonlight so Golfer Stinch comb had to keep his shots straight down the fairway in order to find his ball. He made a birdie and an eagle, lost no balls, finished with a nine-hole score of 35, one under...
...down by law. First notable U. S. player was George Washington, who had a bowling green* at Mount Vernon. A fresh-air cousin of indoor bowling, lawn bowling, recently revived, is nowadays a decorous game which appeals chiefly to oldsters, who find its 3½ lb. bowl (ball) easier to handle than the 16-lb. indoor ball. Last week 160 of its foremost enthusiasts assembled in Chicago's Jackson Park ior the high point of the U. S. season, the annual championship meet of the 22-year-old American Lawn Bowling Association...
Object of lawn bowling is to throw the bowl, which is weighted on one end to make it lopsided, down a green 120 ft. long to land as close as possible to a previously thrown white ball or "jack." Major tournament play is between teams consisting of four men-lead, second, third, and skip (captain)-each of whom throws two bowls. An opponent's bowl may be knocked away from the jack or a teammate's may be knocked closer. When all the bowls are played and an "end" is completed, it is scored like horseshoes, the closest...
Chairman Brewster wants to name a Queen of the Ball whom he can also use as a model for Townsend Silver advertising, thus assuring a million dollar account for his insolvent agency. When stuffy young Alan Townsend (Richard Arlen) tells him that he wants a socialite for both jobs, the indefatigable Brewster finds one in the person of Townsend's fiancee Cynthia (Gail Patrick). But meantime Brewster's professional model fiancée Paula Sewell (Ida Lupino) has pursued young Townsend to Miami, convinced him, apparently by drinking tea with an arched ringer, that she is an eligible...