Word: beating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first day, when the foursomes were played, the U. S. had led, 2½points to 1½. Loose-jointed young Horton Smith from Joplin, Mo., did not play in the foursomes. Instead he followed Leo Diegel and Al Espinosa who, playing the best match of the two days, beat Britain's Boomer and Duncan seven up and five to go. The U. S. won two matches, dropped one, tied another. By lunchtime the next day, British golf enthusiasts were jubilant. The British team was leading in four matches, three were tied, and only Leo Diegel...
...Charles River last week, three Princeton crews beat three M. I. T. crews. Princeton did not use its mysterious new shell, The Flying Dutchman. This shell, anonymously given, appeared prepaid one day at the Princeton boat house. It is eight feet shorter than the average shell, and nine inches wider. Flatbottomed, it is designed to skim the water rather than cut it. When it goes fast, it rises out of the water like a motor boat...
...from a seven-night job came one early experience from which Mr. Ley learned a lesson which later was to stay well by him. He was earning $1 weekly as lamplighter for Worcester, Mass., gas lamps. Twice, on cold January nights, he skipped one light on his beat For the first omission he was rebuked; for the second, discharged. Said Mr. Ley, many years after: "The greatest of all virtues is thoroughness. Nothing is ever really done until it is done right. This lesson I learned early in life...
There has been no opportunity, on account of the strong winds, to go over the new course in the Charles River Basin, but the eights rowed separately and at a low beat from the start to the Harvard Bridge yesterday afternoon...
...first matches of the afternoon Phillips Finlay '31 defeated R. Yates, 6 and 5. E. B. Murphy '31, second man, beat E. Yates, 6 and 5. Finlay and Murphy together won over R. Yates and E. Yates, 4 and 3. The remaining two-somes were also taken easily by the Crimson players. Arnold defeating Williams, 6 and 4, and Filoon outplaying Branchi 8 and 7. Arnold and Filoon won their four some...