Word: crooke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From its obscure beginnings, when the only club was a shepherd's crook, to the present, when most experts and more nonexperts carry golf bags equipped with everything except an icebox, the history of golf has been partly the history of the elaboration of its implements. Famed Charles ("Chick") Evans, when he won the U. S. Open in 1916, carried only seven clubs. Last summer, Open Champion Tony Manero carried 19, Amateur Champion Johnny Fischer...
...JERE L. CROOK...
...Porcupine, Canada, Joslin reported that it was salted, took no samples of the rock into which the gold had obviously been pounded. Another company took such tests despite the clumsy attempt at fraud, discovered the samples averaged $25 a ton, paid cash for the claim, thinking the would-be crook had pounded gold into a gold mine unwittingly. But it developed that the crook had foreseen that line of reasoning, done a crude job of salting as bait, then an expert job of salting the samples, escaped in the double double-crossing that followed...
...have a phoney check drawn on the Globe National Bank of Denver, Colo, and passed by this notorious crook...
...thundered Roger Bigelow Merriman, Gurney Professor of History and exalted Master of Eliot House, brandishing his cane like the bloody brand of Rollo. The little lad turned pale and fled for the river, but Sir Roger, undaunted, steamed after him in hot pursuit, and, reaching out with the crook of his cane, hooked him by the belt of his trousers on the steps of Weeks Memorial Bridge. Then, muttering something about the uselessness of the Cambridge Police, Master Merriman took the law into his own hands in true baronial fashion, rendering immediate justice and chastisement with his cane...