Word: fielding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tournament golf for a woman when it is all medal play. The first such tournament was played last week at the Flossmoor club near Chicago where women's par is 80 strokes. Four times par was broken and once it was equalled, but the final scores in a field of 49 were a long parade beginning 14 strokes behind the par 320 scored by chunky, freckle-some Helen Hicks of Long Island. She had two course-record-breaking 78's to start with, which gave her subsequent 83 and 81 comfortable leeway under Virginia Van Wie of Chicago...
...hired a plane and pilot which followed the pigeon and photographed the house on which it alighted. Duisburg police soon arrested the blackmailer. Less smart were Manhattan police last April when a Dr. Louis Alofsin received a pair of pigeons and a demand for $10,000. Police, futile with field glasses on housetops, watched the birds fly across the Hudson to New Jersey...
...Italian, was designing a monoplane with elevators so large that they virtually formed a second rear wing, George Fernic, tousle-haired Rumanian, was building a monoplane with a second true wing set at its nose. His theory was that the auxiliary wing would prevent stalling. Last week at Roosevelt Field, L. I., Designer Fernic flew his machine successfully, although he could gain only 700 feet altitude. On a second trial he ran it into a wire fence, partially wrecked...
...rapidly becoming obsolete. No longer does the football captain pace the Yard with an "H" emblazoned on his chest, giving advice and controlling the destinies of thousands of satellites. Nor does the presidency of some undergraduate activity carry with it anything more than prominence in a specialized field...
...starting in on four years of college life there is a widely varied field of activity open to him. As long as he pursues a sincere desire to work in some special activity he is justified. If he feels that he is gaining some special prestige aside from recognition of ability in his field of activity, he will derive an added benefit which few expect...