Word: fla
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sand green. They thought it made putting too easy. The Pinehurst golfers then tried a 6-in. cup, planned a tournament to see if the members liked it. Eight-inch cups were installed at the Cavalier Country Club, Virginia Beach; Riviera Golf Course, Miami; Palmaceia Course, near Tampa, Fla. Here the second annual Gasparilla 72-hole medal play for a guaranteed net $1,300 purse will be held next week in which experts who like the idea of the new cup will have a chance to try it. One entrant will be Wild Bill Mehlhorn, famed professional who last year...
...Girl swimmers in a three-day meet sponsored by Henry L. Doherty's new Florida Year-Round Clubs, at the Miami-Biltmore pool: nine new national records. Record-breakers: minnowy Katherine Rawls of Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (300 yd. medley, 300, 400 and 440 yd. breaststroke) ; pretty Lenore Kight of Homestead, Pa. (400 yd. and 500 metre free style) ; muscular Margaret Hoffman of Scranton, Pa. (200 yd., 220 yd. and 200 metre breast stroke, the last two simul-taneously...
Died. Carl S. Carlton, 53, farmer brother of Florida's Governor Doyle Elam Carlton; by a charge of buckshot fired, while deer-hunting, by his brother Alton Carlton. ricocheting off a cypress tree full into his face; in the Everglades near Immokalee, Fla...
...Herman Densmore ("Denny") Shute, slim 28-year-old golf professional from Cleveland: his first major tournament: the $10,000 Miami Biltmore Open; with 291, a stroke less than 21-year-old John Revolta of Menominee, Mich.; at Coral Gables, Fla. Day before 19 of the best known entrants, including Gene Sarazen, Walter Hagen, Billy Burke, Horton Smith, announced that, because they were unsatisfied with the Professional Golfers' Association tournament schedule, they had formed an organization to promote more open tournaments, persuade colleges to hire professional golfers as coaches...
...grandmother) carillon pealed its world's biggest 72 bells. Outside was a mob with news sense, pleased because the bride smiled at large as she walked into the church. Inside were 2,500 Rockefeller & Hooker friends, socialites, bankers, no grandfather, for John Davison Rockefeller, 93, departed for Ormond Beach, Fla. two days before the wedding to avoid public exposure. After an organ prelude including Bach's Prelude in E flat minor from "The Well-Tempered Clavichord" and "Blessed Jesu. We Are Here," the grave young bride followed the procession 250 ft. up an aisle banked in white chrysanthemums and Japanese...