Word: golf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...twenty large dishes of ice-cream directly after dinner I consider myself worthy of defending Princeton's honor by challenging you to an ice-cream consumption duel after the Harvard-Princeton football game next Saturday stop Since I am not a runner I suggest we play eighteen holes of golf before breakfast next morning stop Princeton hopes Harvard's ice-cream champion will not get cold feet." (Signed) Paul Vermont Tector...
...these were isolated flashes of brilliance. Just as the South was slow in taking up golf only to turn out a Bobby Jones, so it was slow to take up football, did not break into the big time until nearly twelve years ago, but then proved its mettle. The break can be dated from New Year's Day 1926, when the University of Washington, Pacific Coast Conference champion, invited what it considered the best team in the U. S. (outside the Conference) to play in Pasadena's Tournament of Roses game. That was Alabama's Crimson Tide...
Publisher Knight persisted in his effort to buy the Herald because he likes Miami and needs something more absorbing than golf to keep him busy during his winters there. Publisher Shutts likes Pittsfield, Mass., where he has a summer home. Last week, returning to Miami from Pittsfield, he admitted he needed a respite, concluded a $2,500,000 deal with Ohio's Knight whereby Publisher Shutts retains a minority of Herald preferred stock, relinquishes control to Publisher Knight & associates...
...championship are persistent matrons like Mrs. Opal Hill of Kansas City, who was playing in her 13th national tournament last week, or enthusiastic youngsters like Patty Berg. Mrs. Page, 29, is neither. Wife of an accountant in Greensboro. N. C. she first took up golf for her health, has played only six years...
Memphis society was reported disgusted with the visiting golfers, found them too preoccupied with golf for cocktails and dinner parties. The U. S. Golf Association was disgusted for another reason. Southern golf addicts willing to pay $2.20 to see able women golfers eliminate each other had been disappointingly few. It seemed probable last week that the first women's national championship to be held in the South would also be the last for a long time...