Word: golfed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sorrento a New York Real Estate firm (headed by a Joseph S. Edelman) held an option, which, last week was delivered over to John E. Nail, Negro real estate operator.* Soon his plans became known. In Sorrento he will organize a fashionable Negro summer resort. There will be a golf course, tennis courts, a clubhouse, a swimming beach across the narrow cove from Bar Harbor...
...Golf. Will Rogers, professional funnyman, in his syndicated newspaper column, addressed Bobby Jones, golfer. He suggested that Mr. Jones refuse to play on golf courses that do not have long fairways and are not broad enough to be used as emergency landing fields for airplanes. Said he: "If you do this you will do as much for aviation as Lindbergh...
...error. Average time for an 18-hole round of golf is 150 minutes. Even should a player take so few as 67 strokes, as did Golfer Robert Tyre Jones Jr. in the national amateur qualifying round last week, his strokes would come at an average of less than three minutes apart. - ED. in a letter signed by L. A. Merillat- which appeared in your issue of Aug. 15. In this letter the writer states "there are fewer horses in cities than formerly but more in the United States than in 1900. The exact number given by a recent report...
Rear Admiral Hough, 56, reported the incident to his superior, Vice Admiral Clarence Stewart Williams, Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Asiatic Fleet. He recalled, too, that while commander of the Yangtze patrol, the post he still occupies, he narrowly escaped death while playing golf on the Hankow course when Chinese soldiers fired upon him and his party. What the Admiral said on that occasion is not recorded...
...were enemies; all were fighting to take something from the others. But the fight was untainted because they were all honorable men who play golf for glory and not for pelf...