Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crushed Hubbell from the game. Thereafter, not even four more National pitchers could halt the Americans. Joe Medwick of the St. Louis Cardinals hit safely four out of five times at bat but Nationals managed to get only three runs to the Americans' eight. The slugging Yankees drove in all but one of the American League's runs, and Herman and Hartnett of the Cubs scored all but one of the National League...
...Charles Lacey, British by birth, controlled their pitching and putting, carding respectively 71 and 70. By mid-day Reginald Whitcombe, at home in the torrent, thought his two-stroke lead safe. No longer threatened by the U. S. pack, he only feared his brother and Henry Cotton as he drove off for the final 18 holes...
...afraid or polite to ask. There were rumors that Montague had gold mines in Arizona. This was merely because he often disappeared into the desert for months at a time. It was said he had a connection with a company that made super-chargers. This was because he drove two Lincolns and a geared- up Ford. Unconcerned with antecedents, Hollywood asked no questions. Montague played golf...
...34th hole 1 up on Percy Alliss, Sarazen proceeded to drive into the deep trap. As Captain Hagen excitedly chewed a cigaret on the sideline, Sarazen heroically lifted his ball safely over the bunker to the green, halved the hole. He halved the next one, too, then drove calmly between the dunes, pitched to the green, holed out in 4 to equal Alliss and clinch the Ryder Cup. Two more U. S. victories brought the final score...
...bright lights glitter in the bars and clubs from here to Honolulu. ... I cried when I left my Tahiti sweetheart. . . . Amy [Johnson Mollison, who lately divorced him] has been wonderful to me, but we are poles apart." From England, Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh flew to Dinan, Brittany, then drove a hired auto to the coast. When no power boat met him he paddled a quarter of a mile in a collapsible rubber boat to little St. Gildas Island to visit his friend and colleague, Dr. Alexis Carrel...