Word: boites
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Second Varsity Eights--1. Harvard (bow, Bob Wiley, 2. Tim McGee, 3. Marshall Moore, 4. Richard Porteus, 5. Gus Stuart, 6. Jim Kenary, 7. Hap Porter, stroke, Doug Wood, coxswain Chris Boit), 6:08.4; 2. Penn, 6:14.1; 3. Navy...
Golf was introduced to New England in 1892 by a young woman named Florence Boit. Until 1948 she remained anonymous and was referred to only as "the young lady from Pau." It seems that Florence arrived in Wellesley, Mass. for a summer sojourn at the home of Arthur Hunnewell with her golf clubs in tow, having brought them over from Pau, France, where she had been wintering. She was soon informed to her great chagrin that the game of golf had never been played in New England before, much less even heard...
Thanks to Curtis and Florence Boit, a six-hole course was duly laid out in March of 1893, and ever since The Country Club has been one of the nation's premiere tests of golf. These first holes were "placed on a lawn in front of the clubhouse, in dangerous proximity, as after experience showed, to the front piazza...
Yesterday another thrilling match took place over the hallowed fairways of The Country Club. Harvard walloped Yale and Princeton in the Big Three match, and the Crimson has Florence Boit to thank...
...Chris Boit...