Word: golf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Without comment or formal opinion, the U.S. Supreme Court last week tersely ordered public parks, playgrounds and golf courses desegregated. It required fewer than 70 words for the Supreme Court to make two separate rulings, one affirming an appeals court decision against segregation in Maryland parks and playgrounds (including swimming pools), the other reversing lower-court decisions that had upheld segregation on Atlanta golf courses...
Students who have fulfilled all physical standards can choose between a long list of inter-collegiate or intramural sports, or take classes in such improbable courses as tumbling, jui, jitsu, handball, badminton, polo, golf, and many others...
Progress was creeping up on Long Island's famed old Deepdale Golf Club. The ranch homes of well-heeled suburbia were already encamped on its borders; soon its green and rolling acres would be split by the broad scar of an express highway. It was time to move on. But before their old bar was closed, before the silver trophies were packed for shipment, Deepdale's members decided to hold one more tournament on the trim fairways that have known such diverse golfers as William K. Vanderbilt and Dwight Eisenhower, Bing Crosby and Bobby Jones...
...last September Deepdale organized a "Calcutta"* competition. Amateur sportsmen not averse to gambling $1,000 or so on a friendly game of golf scrabbled for invitations. Among them was Richard L. Armstrong, a Manhasset (N.Y.) investor and member of the nearby Sands Point Club. At a tournament dinner before the teams teed off, Armstrong just happened to be seated at the same table with a pair of visiting golfers named William Roberts and Richard Vitali. Roberts, who claimed a 17-stroke handicap (along with his partner's 18), seemed strangely confident. No one knew anything about him, but there...
...popular form of gambling on golf, in which players are auctioned off to the highest bidder, all payments going into a pot that is split be tween "owners" of the winners...