Word: golfed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Winnington Ingram, Lord* Bishop of London. Guest of the Department of Religious Education of the National Council of the Episcopal Church, he will spend six weeks here, lecturing at colleges and schools. "You might also arrange," he wrote an executive, "for me to play tennis or squash raquets or golf with young men, as I am still playing all of these pretty well...
...Japanese pastime of shooting at a target while treading water. Later he applauded enthusiastically a group of expert swimmers who donned ancient Samurai suits of metal armor and thus clad swam an exciting race. As everyone knows, the Prince of Wales and Prince Regent Hirohito played a game of golf on the Komazawa links (1923) in which Edward won by a point-a fact patriotically concealed at the time by the Japanese press...
...ball disappeared over a highway on his left. He tried another, whacked it after its fellow. A third ball also, journeyed to limbo. A fourth landed on the fairway. The golfer, having now played seven, took 12 for the hole (par 5). He was Robert Gardner, holder of many golf titles, U. S. Walker cup team captain, setting forth to qualify for the national amateur. It was just one of those freak episodes that can happen in golf tournaments, even to champions. He did not qualify...
...Charles Evans, both former title holders, came through the early rounds with ease; they might, if Jones relapsed, meet in the finals. Von Elm beat Watts Gunn, 8 and 7, and rollicked to a victory over a Chicago strapper named George Dawson. Robert Jones, with the flawless, electric golf that only he had ever quite achieved, marched bitterly past Chick Evans, and then past Ouimet, to meet Von Elm in the finals...
...Which one of the following is Norman Leslie Derham: a piccolo player, a horse thief, a Siamese twin, a barber, a golf champion, a Juke, a man-in-the-street, a Fiji emperor, or a Channel swimmer...