Word: golfed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...months ago, well-meaning Mr. Forrest, whose years of scrivening and dubious golf game have not dulled his sensibilities and his imagination, stood outside the offices of a leading Paris newspaper and watched the posting of bulletins about ill-fated Flyers Coli and Nungesser. Several thousands of Frenchmen surrounded Mr. Forrest and when a bulletin was posted saying that the flyers had been falsely reported safe in the U. S., Mr. Forrest interpreted the Frenchmen's noisy grief and disappointment as an "anti-A m e r i c a n demonstration." Other U. S. correspondents in Paris soon...
Last week, Watts Gunn of Georgia Tech, playmate of Robert Tyre Jones Jr., went four times around the Garden City (L. I.) Golf Club course in a total of 302 strokes. Had he been alive to do this in 1902, he would have won the U. S. Open Championship by five strokes.* But, at 22, his reward was the qualifying medal of the national intercollegiate golf tournament...
Beginning at the fifth hole of their first round, Golfer Gunn went stark, staring golf-mad, made six birdies, used only nine putts on seven consecutive holes-putts varying between 35 and 12 feet-sunk with a borrowed putter. His score for the first 18 holes was 69, breaking the course record by two strokes. After that it was only a matter of time before Mr. Gunn won match and championship...
Another figure in the tournament was John D. Ames, blond son of Knowlton L. ("Snake") Ames (sinuous Princeton quarterback of the strenuous '90s), who lost to Watts Gunn in the second round but was elected president of the Intercollegiate Golf Association...
Died. Howard Frederic Whitney, 52, banker, onetime president of United States Golf Association; of heart disease in Glen Cove...