Word: golfe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...those shifting salt-and-pepper skies hung over The Country Club in Brookline the other day, the kind that bodes so well for a round of golf on a true links-type course. The first rounds of spring are often the most memorable, and so it was on Wednesday, when Spence Fitzgibbons took up his springy driver and embarked on a nine-hole jaunt over the Primrose course with a playing partner who will remain anonymous...
...name is Edward Spence Fitzgibbons Jr., though he has acquired a long train of nicknames during the course of his career, the most endearing of which are "Four-Year-Old," "Jumbo," "Watty," and "Fitzleman." His playing partner on this occasion was a certain young slasher who sometimes writes about golf for the Harvard paper...
...GOLF...
Three talented teams had their unbeaten records snapped: tennis, in a 5-4 hearbreaker to Yale; baseball, in a tough 3-1 loss to Columbia; and golf, to Princeto in the Big Three match. To make matters worse, The Crimson had to eat its words when a Yale lacrosse team we had described as "hapless" upended Harvard's squad...
John Reid, the patriarch of American golf, was immensely satisfied when his son, John Jr., won the intercollegiate title while plying for Yale in 1899. Another year his younger son Archie lost a match in the U.S.Amateur. After seeing the news in the paper, Reid turned to his wife t breakfast and cooly said: "I see where your son has lost a golf match...