Word: clubbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enterprising editor of a national sport magazine wanted to increase his advertising by booming the arms & ammunition industry, a new U. S. sport named skeet was created 13 years ago. An offshoot of trapshooting. its procedure of firing from eight different stations around a semicircle appealed to tony country-club members because it did a pretty good job of simulating upland game shooting. Five years ago there were 800 skeet clubs in the U. S., 20.000 registered skeeters. This year there are 2.500 skeet clubs, 100,000 skeeters...
...about skeet is that 20% of its enthusiasts are women & children who probably would never have seen a shotgun were it not for the unique U. S. mores that deny them the privileges of golf courses on Sunday afternoons. To keep golf widows & orphans amused, many a sedate country club has erected a skeet field, developed expert marksmen out of onetime Sunday thumb-twiddlers...
...Open, most of the gallery followed the favorite, Robert Patrick ("Pat") Ball, Chicago grocer who had won the title three times. Others with a lively following were dapper John Dendy. defending champion who works as a locker boy at North Carolina's fashionable Asheville Country Club; and Hugh Smith, a Thomastown (Ga.) office boy who recently shot a 263 in a southern tournament and was forthwith sent to the national meet by his boss (for whom he caddies weekends...
...edge of a match folder, shuffle along the fairways in a Stepin Fetchit gait, plop down on the greens while waiting his turn to putt. A onetime professional whose occupation has been "just walkin' round" since he lost his job at Atlanta's Lincoln (Negro) Country Club in 1933. 29-year-old Howard Wheeler proved last week that he could still teach folks a few golfing tricks. With a minimum of effort, he got results that would please many a top-flight white golfer: rounds of 68, 73, 72, 71- on a tough, hilly course he had never...
...defeated Australia in one fell swoop in the challenge round for the Davis Cup, great silver symbol of international lawn tennis supremacy. Last week, on the same courts of the Germantown Cricket Club, a 1938 crop of U. S. and Australian Davis Cuppers met again in the challenge (final) round...