Word: divots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young people's sports program went off approximately as scheduled although tennis enthusiasts and divot diggers were able to play only irregularly. Grounds were wet on Tuesday, but the two soft-ball games gutted Soldiers Field although contestants, observers, and umpires were unable to agree on the winning teams...
Newton's Woodlawn Golf Club will play host to Captain Sam Savidge's divot-diggers tomorrow at 2 o'clock, and Boston University will be on hand to turn the eighteen-hole tour into a bit of local competition...
...note of optimism has also been struck with the arrangements which finally give the divot-diggers a chance to use the course at the Dedham Country and Polo Club. "It's a good test of golf," according to Savidge, "and at long last affords the players a dependable fairway on which to set up their tees and do some thorough practicing...
Bobby Jones was no longer allowed to stroll through his home taking practice shots at imaginary golf balls, reported son Robert III. Mrs. Jones laid down the law after the great man missed an imaginary ball, dug a heroic-sized, irreplaceable divot out of the living-room...
...denying soldiers free golf privileges at Bethpage State Park. Excerpt: "Experience has shown that most of the servicemen who play golf are officers, who can afford a reasonable fee, and that the average . . . doughboy regards golf as a sport of toffs* and gentlemen and doesn't know a divot from an Attic tomb inscription...