Word: golfed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the fortitude of men who have sown for other men's reaping the greens-gang of Oakmont Country Club (Pittsburgh) last week laid away mower, mattock and weeding knife. Their work was ready for its demolition. "One of the most difficult golf courses in the world" lay clipped, combed and manicured for the qualifying salvos the National Amateur Championship...
...faced individuals who know all about golf listened last week while the Western Open Golf championship was being discussed in the soda fountains of their country clubs. Their eyes bulged with impatience, but they listened, for they wanted their own dicta to be final. When the others, at length, perceived their plight and fell silent, these informed ones wiped their mouths with the backs of their hands. Out of the fullness of their knowledge, in voices thickened by many draughts of Seltzer-water and orange juice, they spoke. "That's all right," they said, "but let me tell...
Spring Fever. The first production in many weeks that has not been definitely distressing moved in last week to tell a tale of golf and tender passions. I: is true that the latter toughened up a trifle in the final act when Mr. A. H. Woods pulled one of his laciest beds out of storage and gave the public what he found it wanted long ago. The scene was often in bad taste and quite irrelevant to the rest. Like the rest, however, it loosed a light supply of laughter...
...Baltimore. Tennis, as well as golf, has its Municipal champions. Last week some were crowned in Baltimore; quaint names, unfamiliar even to most Baltimorons, crept into the sporting sheets-such, for examples, as the names of Lejeck, Rosenblatt, Sluitor. The former-Charles and Leo Lejeck-'discouraged the united efforts of the latter to become National Municipal Doubles Champions. The agile Ted Drewes of St. Louis defeated obstinate Eddie Jacobs for the singles title in a match which revealed that the gilded upper classes are not the only people who play tennis-but they play it best...
...Neutz, holding ace, king, queen, jack and four low spades, and supported by his partner, went up to seven spades, began to play them. On every trick Donahue discarded a diamond; he had held 13 of them, a perfect hand-many times rarer than a hole in one at golf. The stupidity of his initial bid robbed him of a chance...