Word: golfed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University golf team, on the eve of its trip to New York, completely routed the B. U. golfers in a match played at the Woodland Country Club yesterday afternoon by the score of 6-0. The team goes to New York this afternoon where it will play tomorrow matches with Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania...
Lord Balfour consoled England recently for the loss of its many international athletic trophies in a manner which does credit to traditional British sportsmanship. In a debate with the editor of the National Review on the question "Does golf do more harm than good?" Lord Balfour expatiated on lawn tennis, which he enjoys, but he also took advantage of the occasion to make it plain that England should feel no tragedy in the passing of athletic laurels to other countries...
...every green, Scots wahighing their short approaches, wahoing the long grass with their mashies, plus-four scorers who shyly admit that the only shot they are sure of is their fourth putt. Even of these, many get about a course with 72-odd clips, but only three play golf as every able man sensibly expects to. Last week, the handicap figures of Great Britain were issued. Three golfers were listed at scratch-Roger Wethered, Sir Ernest Holderness, Cyril J. H. Tolley. The first is lean, composed, frosty. His wrists are steel springs ; his swing is the crack of a quirt...
...offing are visions of a skating rink with artificial ice, a golf course, and a polo field. Such facilities would be of great value in offering opportunities for exercise to the students, as well as to the development of teams for competition...
...baseball cage, a new boat house, a swimming pool, new squash courts, a skating rink, a golf course and a polo field, are all suggested by the committee as necessary additions to the University athletic plant. In the beginning of the report the Committee expresses its complete approval of the present attention paid by the University to athletics, and expresses sympathy with the statement of Professor Mendell of Yale that "athletics make education safe for the Yale undergraduates...