Word: golf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Philippines there are few native women who have the urge to play golf. When, last week at Manila, a bevy of ladies were primping and practicing for the first round of the women's open golf championship, there were many Americans and Europeans, only one Filipina. She was a washerwoman. Strong-armed Dominga Capati, who learned the game when she made friends with a caddy near her employer's estate, was not at all abashed by her classy opponents. The field was strong but she was stronger. With lusty drives and delicate putts, Dominga Capati gave the whole...
...true criteria to be used in judging the value of a sport is the worth of that sport to a student in after college life. On this basis the two American major sports are golf and tennis. With regard to the latter the University has ample facilities, but in the former only the good graces of a neighboring golf course mogul allow any direct Harvard participation...
...Golf is the only active game which stays with a man all his life. It is a game which may be played by all men. It is one of the few games which are profitable to the businessman as well as the sport. It is a game which more Harvard men should have the opportunity to learn while at the University...
...agree with the Virginia hillbillies, and some experts, notably Gene Sarazen, go so far as to say he is the greatest golfer ever developed in the U. S. Making his bigtime debut in the winter circuit last year, 24-year-old Samuel Jackson Snead captured the favor of golf galleries by his tremendous power and precise timing, his natural swing, his titanic stretch finishes. He began to draw galleries reminiscent of the Hagen, Jones and Sarazen eras. By the time the No. i U. S. tournament of the year, the National Open, came around in June, Sam Snead was favored...
...no.flash in the pan. In two weeks of play, ending Christmas Day, the cool, phlegmatic juvenile lead had won the Miami Open, the Nassau Open and placed fourth in the Miami-Biltmore Open. He had won $2,000 in two weeks, had played twelve rounds of grueling competitive golf with an average of less than 69 strokes a round. In the Miami Open he had reached his peak when he zoomed away from the field to finish 13 strokes under par, scoring a 68, 67, 66, 66. Sam Snead became a nationwide sensation...