Word: golf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tennis matches yesterday and the day before, Adams, Eliot, and Kirkland respectively blanked Leverett, Dunster, and Dudley 7 to 0, while Lowell racquetmen took Winthrop 5 to 2. Golf matches have been postponed until next week...
...Henry Picard, Hershey, Pa. professional, the annual Masters' Golf Tournament on Bobby Jones's tough home course in Augusta, Ga., with 285 strokes, three under par. Bobby Jones took 297 strokes and 15th place, was so encouraged by his comeback (last year he was 30th) that he said he might come out of retirement to enter the National Open in Denver in June if he was not required to play through qualifying trials...
Thirty-two Varsity and Freshman golf candidates reported to Coach Clark Hodder yesterday for the first meeting of the year. Since the regular greens at the Belmont Country Club will not be open until this weekend, there will be no test matches for the aspirants until after vacation, Hodder announced...
...Grosvenor Square, the Ambassador cocked his feet up on his highly-polished desk, to the satisfaction of Britons who always thought the "English gentleman" manners of his predecessor, the late Robert Worth Bingham, somewhat pretentious. Joe Kennedy proceeded to go for a ride on a "rented horse," played golf (see p. 28), shook hands with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain...
Near the Stoke Poges churchyard in Buckinghamshire where Thomas Gray in the 18th Century wrote an elegy, there is a brand-new golf course. There Joseph Patrick Kennedy on the fourth day after his arrival as U. S. Ambassador to Britain (see p. 19) scored a hole-in-one. Dazed, he exclaimed, according to British reporters: "Just fancy! I had to come all the way over here...