Word: golfed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...development of A. G. Spalding & Bros, originally coincided with the de-velopment of baseball. In more recent years it has branched out to parallel increased U. S. interest in track, football, basketball, tennis, golf. The company was founded in 1876, the year that Mr. Spalding was pitcher and manager of the old Chicago team for which "Pop" Anson and Evangelist Billy Sunday played. It was Spalding's Chicago team which first appeared in regulation baseball uniforms. It was Spalding's company which standardized early baseballs and developed the modern baseball bat with the pronounced bulge in its business...
From the Bishop of St. Albans, words majestic and inspiring might be expected. The present bishop is the Right Rev. Michael Bolton Furse, graduate of Eton and Trinity College, Oxford. He is 59 and long married. His fondness for golf and fishing proclaim him a philosophic gentleman. But an irruption from him last fortnight revealed the length to which a modern churchman, however anciently hallowed his setting, may let himself go when oppressed by the wickedness of the times. Bishop Furse was moved to speak out about divorce and about persons unbaptized. These matters had been rankling until the Bishop...
...bread to the elephants and said: "Mr. Ringling-John-you have proven yourself a public benefactor of the highest possible type." At Miami Beach, behind a speeding motorcycle escort he passed within sight of Belle Isle where President-Elect Hoover was sunning, but did not immediately visit. He played golf, went swimming, established himself in two suites at the Miami-Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables. Meanwhile, Republican newspaper editors were flaying with indignation a statement made by Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt that the reaction to Mr. Smith's defeat "can only be compared to that which followed the theft...
...showed losses. Track cost more than $20,000, basketball $12,000, baseball $10,000. As President Little desired, the football money is being spent to pay for the new football stadium, for a women's athletic building, for the Intramural Sports building, for the Michigan hockey rink, for the golf course...
Round 9. Mr. Rockefeller Sr., weight 135 lbs., was down at Ormond Beach, Fla., last week, playing a little golf and enjoying the religiously regular daily schedule that has kept him alive to the age of 89½ years. He made no public statement on his son's battle with Col. Stewart, although his routine was likely to suffer interruption. For there was not a shadow of a doubt that he was heart and soul for the son, upon whom rests all affairs of Rockefeller fortune and philanthropy, and who sinks to his knees every night to ask God that...