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...comparison of this year and 1936-37: Cross Country 25 32 Football 210 225 Golf 16 74 Tennis 124 243 Touch football 83 147 Track 56 Total...
Largest proportional jump in number of men in this year's fall program over last year's was in golf. This fall 74 men went out for divot digging, as against 16 last year. Tennis also had a large increase, 243 men being engaged in the net sport this year and only...
...Flushing, L. I., barrel-chested La Verne (John Montague) Moore, recently acquitted of seven-year-old robbery charges (TIME, Nov. 8 et ante), played in his first public golf match, for a child welfare charity. Came 12,000 oglers who overran tees, fairways, greens, bags, players, so confounded Golfer Moore-Montague that on the sixth hole his approach shot landed on a spectator's pate. The foursome-including Babes Ruth and Didrikson-gave up at the 9th, with Montague 2 down to Ruth...
...America football teams of 1889-90-91. After graduation Pudge Heffelfinger played a little professional football, coached at the University of California, went into the insurance business. Now approaching 70, still ruddy and hale, Pudge Heffelfinger is serving his fourth term as a Hennepin County (Minnesota) Commissioner, plays golf, lends his name and some of his time to the publication of two pamphlets called Heffelfinger's Football Facts and Heffelfinger's Baseball Facts. He played his last football game (nine minutes for charity) five weeks before his 66th birthday. Last week in Manhattan, at a luncheon...
Some examples of pictures which Riggs has taken with his machine are: a golf ball compressed by a golf club; and a bullet stopped in flight as it shatters a bulb. Despite the terrific speeds of the objects, the pictures show remarkably little distortion, Riggs said...