Word: craige
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Divot Sirs: I am the spectator mentioned in TIME, June 19 under Sport, "Triple Tie." Craig Wood's ball did not strike me "flush on the temple." If it had I would not be here now. It struck me on the side of my head and took a "divot" requiring three stitches to close...
...funny part about the incident is that I own and operate the Main Line Golf Driving Range at Ardmore and have been dodging golf balls for 10 years without getting hit. then I take an afternoon off to see the finish of the U. S. Open Championship and, "whack!", Craig Wood's brassie shot on the 18th lands me in the Bryn Mawr Hospital where I have been ever since...
...servant of Dictator-President Getulio Vargas and as such he will be accorded honors only less than those due a visiting ruler. A tank escort, a military guard at the Brazilian Embassy, a chat with Franklin Roosevelt, tea with Cordell Hull, the personal attentions of Chief of Staff Malin Craig are part of the Washington ritual. Ranking generals will then accompany him on an aerial tour of U. S. Army posts, with appropriate reviews and banquets...
...strokes as the barnstorming British Professionals Harry Vardon & Ted Ray, the U. S. Open Golf Championship ended in a three-way tie. Identical scores of 284, after three days of nerve-racking play over the sun-baked Spring Mill course of the Philadelphia Country Club, were hung up by Craig Wood, Denny Shute and Byron Nelson...
Next day, in an 18-hole playoff, while the gallery was still talking about Sam Snead's heart-breaking blowup that snatched the championship from him on the very last of the 72 holes, Craig Wood furnished the 5,000 spectators with a golf round even more dramatic. On that same 18th hole where an 8 brought tragedy to Snead, Wood, leading Nelson by one stroke, hooked his second shot. The ball struck a spectator flush on the temple, knocked him unconscious. Completely unnerved as State troopers carried the stricken man off to the clubhouse, Wood flubbed an eight...