Word: golfed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard is on the rise again in golf. Within the next few years she ought to produce some fine teams," was the opinion of Francis Ouimet, winner of the National Amateur golf title in 1914 and semi-finalist at Minnekadha last summer. "In colleges golf is like a thermometer. At times you have good teams, and then a series of poor ones. It seems as though it has been rather cold at Harvard since Jones left. With several fine Freshman players coming along though, things look better...
Stunt fliers, automobile racers, pearl divers, bull fighters risk wicked wounds in the exercise of their bodies for gold. Not so fisticuffers, footballers, baseball players, golf champions who make most of the money. This winter, however, has seen a shift in money values which brings one sport at least nearer a financial level with its vicious risks. Professional hockey players are being bartered for many thousands, receiving presumably increasingly fat dividends for their efforts. One rumor floats about that the Montreal Canadians hold Howie Morenz, greatest of all hockey players...
...England has lost its monopoly of the textile industry, for factories have grown under favorable conditions in North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. Then too, the Yankee is perhaps less thrifty. Some of his sons and grandsons have preferred golf sticks to spindles. Others have sold the old factory to absentee owners in Manhattan. Meanwhile, mass production was bringing in foreign populations...
...other disadvantages of professional athletics; that to pay for the Stadium would make this general invitation to the public necessary at all but the Yale game; that this marks a definite shift from "athletics-for-all" to "a chance to see athletics-for-all"--that Harvard needs a golf course and other equipment for active use more than a Stadium which would be filled at most twice a year; that the present Stadium, architecturally, is unrivalled, and that the proposed enlargement would make it a monstrosity, also unrivalled; that intercollegiate football is primarily for the undergraduates, not for the graduates...
Died. John Angus McKay, 63, president and publisher of The Spur and Golf Illustrated; in Manhattan...