Word: golfed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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About five years ago the weasel-eyed gamblers who interest themselves in boxing, baseball, racing, first turned attention to golf. Last week in the lobbies of the Chicago hotels where the players were staying, and out at the Olympia Fields course the bookmakers were giving odds: Bobby Jones 3 to i to win the National Open championship for the third time; Walter Hagen, 5 to 1; John Farrell, 8 to 1; last year's champion Tommy Armour, 8 to 1; Archie Compston, 10 to 1. All the other players, except Sarazen, were at long odds, for no single golfer...
...Hagen who had 296, when news came to the clubhouse that one Roland Hancock, 200-pound 22-year-old son of a Wilmington, N. C., professional, had gone out in 33 and was rounding the turn ahead of everybody. Hancock took a five at the tenth, then played par golf until at the seventeenth green he saw the crowd billowing over the turf to meet him and escort him back the new champion. With ten thousand people milling around him he sliced his teeshot into some heavy loam behind a tree, caught the rough with his pitch, put his third...
...National Association of Real Estate Boards. Marion Stump, chosen to sing the praises of Indianapolis corner lots and bungalows, hoped to win the bitterly-fought "home town talk" contest. Hoosiers, among others, learned that the woman in the family buys the house, after considering these advantages: accessibility to golf courses, colored tile bathrooms, low window sills...
...Rotarians roared lustily at this and proceeded to other diversions such as listening to the music of the 50-piece Sauk Centre Boys' Band whose members range in age from seven to fifteen. They toured the city in cars and busses, played baseball and golf, attended the movies, and witnessed a pageant which traced the growth of Rotary from the time 24 years ago when it originated in the mind of one Paul P. Harris, Chicago lawyer, to the present when it has 140,000 members from 44 countries...
...going to have. . . . GOLF, Yes Sir! LUNCHEONS, EXHIBITS, PRIVATE ENTERTAINMENT-While it is not possible and would not be good form for the executive secretary to mention any of these affairs specifically, he is informed and believes 'on advice of counsel,' that he should state that there are some very remarkable dinners, breakfasts and suppers planned, not to mention other most desirable features...