Word: ball
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strokes with 280, seemed the winner. Ralph Guldahl started the last nine needing a 33, three under par, to beat him. He got a birdie, two pars. Then he hit a weak, 22O-yd. drive on the 480-yd. 13th and his jig seemed to be up. His ball was in a downhill lie; yawning in front of the green 260 yards away was a deep, water-filled ravine. Without hesitation Guldahl took a spoon instead of a safe iron, swung with all his 200 pounds, sent the ball whistling across the ravine to the green, six feet from...
...nine-ounce steel ball was dropped on a pane of the same glass from a height of 28 feet. The glass bulged and cracked but did not break. A young woman stood behind another pane while Chief Bender, famed oldtime pitcher, wound up and let fly a baseball at it. The glass stopped the ball...
...Blue Devlis were all not to have a busman's holiday at the expense of any fastball pitching Harvard could offer, but John's "nothing ball" and a loose game kept the tourists on a par with Duke until the seventh, when the potent opposition pounded out three runs to clinch the slugfest...
Brackett started on the mound against Nave, since the Georgetown tilt was rained out. Curtiss relieved him in the third, and after a shaky start, settled down to pitch a good brand of ball...
Down the alley now the pins looked hazy. Bowler McGeorge felt a little sick at his stomach. His palms sweated so that he had to dry them. He dabbed his fingers with chalk, got a grip of sorts on himself, picked up the ball, sighted down the maple strip, and let fly. It was his only erratic shot. There was a gasp as it crossed over, broke toward the Brooklyn (left) side. But on the left side is the 1-2 pocket, which bowlers sometimes call Last Chance Gulch, and right in there Bowler McGeorge's last straying hook...