Word: golf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hanna of $750 beat his father-in-law so cruelly that he became permanently deaf. One of the four robbers was killed when one of the two cars overturned. Two were given jail sentences. The fourth suspect disappeared. He was La Verne Moore of Syracuse, N. Y., famed for golf, baseball and mean practical jokes...
...months ago. New York State police rediscovered La Verne Moore in Hollywood. Calif, using the alias of John Montague. In Hollywood, La Verne Moore's reticence about his past, his phenomenal golf and his high spirits had combined to make him a highly publicized social lion, crony of cinemactors like Bing Crosby. Oliver Hardy and Guy Kibbee (TIME. July 19). Identified by his fingerprints, La Verne Moore was extradited and brought back to the Adirondack summer resort of Elizabethtown, N. Y. for trial. First stage in the case of People of New York v. La Verne Moore took place...
...Richard Male's iron shot from the 7th tee hit an apple tree, it stuck in the crotch, 15 ft. from the ground. He conceded the hole. When Reynolds Smith's ball rolled into a hole made by one of Oregon's gophers, the United States Golf Association's general counsel searched his rule book, finally found a clause providing that a ball may be moved without penalty if it enters a hole made by a "burrowing animal " The U.S.G.A.'s President John U Jackson pronounced the galleries the biggest since Bobby Jones retired, complimented...
Died. George Wright, 90, shortstop on the Cincinnati Red Stockings (first all-professional baseball team), founder of the sporting goods firm of Wright & Ditson, establisher of the first golf course in Boston at Franklin Park; in Dorchester, Mass...
...went down behind the rolling meadows of Kentucky one evening last week and an almost full moon sailed up over Maysville. Verl Stinchcomb, Maysville Country Club professional, started out to play nine holes of nocturnal golf, with two club members tagging along. The flight of a golf ball cannot be followed even in full moonlight so Golfer Stinch comb had to keep his shots straight down the fairway in order to find his ball. He made a birdie and an eagle, lost no balls, finished with a nine-hole score of 35, one under...