Word: golfed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Down a sunbaked Florida golf-fairway, John Davison Rockefeller, aged 88, last week propelled a golf-ball 175 yards. Up stepped Will Rogers, funnyman, with a discolored dime, and said: "Here, Mr. Rockefeller, take this as a little token of your wonderful drive. Be sure and don't spend it too fast...
...years ago no gentleman built a country house without putting in a billiard room. Now those billiard rooms have been turned into breakfast rooms, gun rooms, dens. Billiards, no longer smart, is played and watched now only by people who really like it. In no sport except championship golf is there the same concentration of spectators on a delicate feat of skill, the success of which depends entirely on nervous control-as when, in a room filled with smoke, and banked on four sides by retreating slopes of intense watching faces, a billiard player in a stiff shirt and evening...
...certain harbingers of spring as bright golf hose, mud in the Yard, and the April Hours are the Dowse Institute lectures. For a long, long time the bequest of Thomas Dowse has enabled students willing to make the trek to Sanders Theatre to spend a pleasant evening with an exclusive circle, and incidentally to gather more than a little information about poetry one year, art another, music a third. The climax of this year's series, which has been devoted to music, comes this evening in a lecture on Gilbert and Sullivan, with the attractive sub-title "Illustrated...
Handsome, stocky, dark, and dapper, Gene Sarazen, walked round a golf course at Nassau with dour Johnny Farrell, voted the best dressed U. S. golfer. At the ninth hole Sarazen was a stroke behind. At the seventeenth he was all even. He sank his approach shot on the eighteenth for a birdie 2. Farrell's 15-foot putt hit the back of the cup and bounced out. Sarazen, who goes to Nassau yearly for a sunburn, had won the open championship of the Bahama Islands. In St. Augustine, Fla., Glenna Collett, favorite daughter of Providence...
...status as a minor sport golf resembles polo. The machinery of each makes it caviar to the general, and thus neither has any financial rating in an athletics-for-all policy. Although golf must be content with its present lot in the Harvard budget, one indirect benefit has appeared. Greens fees and expensive course privileges may have put' golf on an undemocratic basis, but the sport not enjoyed by the many is given a clear position of importance that is, if nothing else, honorary...