Word: golfed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...winning the National squash Raquets by winning the National squash title. Although the awarding of major letters for the winning of national championships is not an established precedent, it has been done before, as in the case of R. T. Jones '24, who won the national title in golf. This recommendation of the Student Council will go to the Athletic Committee for final sanction...
...town west of the Alleghanies with an Indian name seems good for a laugh. The mere allusion to one of these settlements, thrown out with a befitting sneer, rouses roars of mirth in any company and knights the dullest jackass as a wit. About the bulletin board of a golf club in Florida, stood a group of Eastern citizens, sunburnt, risible, reading the list of entries for the annual women's golf championship of Belleair Heights. They read with respect the names of Mrs. Dorothy Cambell Hurd of Philadelphia, national champion; Miss Glenna Collett of Providence, Miss Francis Hadfield...
...Palm Beach, one John Cardegna, tennis professional, played a tennis- golf match against one A. G. Tait, golfer, used a tennis racket and ball for all strokes except putts. For 18 holes, Cardegna lobbed, .served; Tait drove, swiped, won4 up. At the conclusion of play, Cardegna's friends consoled him. Said they: "You would surely win if Tait, equipped with golf sticks, should oppose you on a tennis court...
...thought that "the shallow end is often much deeper than we think," the gallant Major considers, among other trivia: Midnight Revels (at home and abroad), Legal Cruelty (English courts), Universal Uncles (radiorators), A Rest Cure (English billiards), Graven Images (Madame Tussaud's famed waxworks), Royal and Antient (droll golf talk), The Springs of Laughter (Musical comedy). The vein employed is gentle satire of patent absurdities. Manners are mildly abused; the reader mildly amused. The soundings of the shallow end remain about as charted...
...invests, a certain number of shares will be devoted to obtaining guest privileges for the undergraduates which may be enjoyed on the payment of a daily fee. In this way men who play fairly seldom will be freed from the necessity of joining the club, and will have a golf course more accessible than any of those, which now surround Cambridge...