Word: golf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Captain Walter Hagen, who had remained abroad for exhibition matches, tried to smooth over the rudeness of his less seasoned confreres by saying: "Some of the boys take their golf too seriously. . . . Ralph Guldahl says the only cheers the Americans got were when they missed shots. If that's so, they got plenty of cheers, for they played some bad golf. . . . The boys were doubtless tired when Guldahl made his statement, but take no notice...
...also brother of Japan's new Premier, Prince Fumimaro Konoye. In Tokyo the Premier's brother's new Butterfly caused no commotion at all. This was because Viscount Konoye, whose family has assimilated easygoing Western ways and whose nephew is captain of Princeton's golf team, scandalized Tokyo society so thoroughly ten years ago by "stooping to become a bandmaster" that all his later doings-including a brilliantly successful U. S. tour last winter, in the course of which he conducted the Philadelphia Orchestra-are considered anticlimactic...
...scoring at golf depends as much on the course as on the player. Arbor Hills is a 6,700-yd. course with five par 5 holes. Golfer Harbert's 268 (31-32-32-32-33-34-36-38) might have been better if reporters had not mistakenly told him while he was playing his last round that Mehlhorn's record was 266. Twenty-three strokes under par when he got his 24th birdie of the tournament at the 5th hole. Golfer Harbert weakened under the pressure of trying to break the record, took three over...
...Battle Creek golf professional who started to teach him the game when he was 3, Golfer Harbert is an amateur who uses a baseball grip and had never until last week bettered the 67 he made in the Michigan Open three years ago. Said he: "After I started with three birdies in a row in mv first round, I knew I was on my game and I just kept going. . . . On the final round, I was so tired I could hardly lift my clubs...
...Walter Hagen and Jock Hutchison, British-born James ("Long Jim") Barnes was the most famed U. S. golfer of the early post-War era. He won the Professional Golfers Association Championship twice (1916 and 1919), the U. S. Open in 1921, the British Open in 1925, retired from tournament golf because he was bored by it in 1932. Last week at Huntington, N. Y., when the -Long Island Open Championship was played over his home Crescent Club course, Long Jim Barnes, 51, decided it was his duty as host to compete. He chose the smallest available caddy, picked a clover...