Word: golf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most astonishing thing about skeet is that 20% of its enthusiasts are women & children who probably would never have seen a shotgun were it not for the unique U. S. mores that deny them the privileges of golf courses on Sunday afternoons. To keep golf widows & orphans amused, many a sedate country club has erected a skeet field, developed expert marksmen out of onetime Sunday thumb-twiddlers...
...Negroes in the U. S., about 50,000 play golf-either on public links or on 20-odd private Negro courses...
Northern Negroes, settling in large cities, rarely know a brassie from a mashie until they have become prosperous enough to enjoy the game as a pastime. But in the South, where country clubs use Negro caddies in great numbers, many moppets learn the fundamentals of golf along with their ABCs...
...Clinton Russell, totally blind Duluth businessman: an 18-hole golf match against W. H. J. Oxenham, totally blind London osteopath; 6 & 5; before 10,000 spectators at the Ridgeview Golf Club. Mr. Russell's home course; at Duluth. Both golfers took up the game after losing their sight, usually play in the 80s, have their caddies place the club head in the proper direction, describe the lie and distance. In last week's match, disturbed by whisperings and camera clicks, Mr. Russell took 56 for the first nine holes, Dr. Oxenham...
...Back in 1913, a young undertaker named John A. Maxwell played golf with two companions on the Raritan Valley Country Club course, Somerville, N. J. As they approached the tenth green, a thunderstorm broke. A forked tongue of lightning licked the fairway, kicked all three players on to their backs, ripped one golf bag down the middle. None of the players was injured. Last week, on the same fairway of the same golf course, in the corresponding week of the corresponding month, at the same time of day (about 3:15 p.m.) Golfer Maxwell was struck down and killed...