Word: golfed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Collar, Whiskey, Golf...
Sirs: . . . Please cancel my subscription and let me know what I owe you for the one copy at once. . . . I would like to meet Robert Garland Smith of Phila. (col. 1, p. 25, June 20, 1927.) I bet he wears a white collar, drinks whiskey and plays golf...
...Washington Treaty ratio became the theme of many a jest. When U. S. Chief Delegate Gibson and British Admiral John Rushworth Jellicoe returned from an informal golf match they waggishly remarked that their scores were "in the 5-5 ratio...
Stepping on the 5,900-yard Oakley Country Club links at 4:24 a. m., James A. McLaughlin, 35-year-old Harvard law professor, set out to win a bet that he could not play 126 holes (seven rounds) of golf in twelve hours without extending himself. Able Mr. McLaughlin surpassed his estimate, played 130 holes in 11 hours, 21 minutes, finished in good condition. And, what is more, he averaged a fraction under 82 strokes for each round. His pedometer showed that he had walked 36 miles. Strong men and duffers were awed...
...suburb of Pittsburgh, 24-year-old Harry Cooper of British birth and Los Angeles residence had been around the links four times last week in a total of 301 strokes, causing a number of people to go home thinking that they had seen the new U. S. open golf champion. Gene Sarazen had put away his clubs, with a 302. "Wild Bill" Mehlhorn of the mighty wrists had gone wild after a few under-par holes. Walter C. Hagen finished with an ignoble round of 81. Robert Tyre Jones, amateur, 1926 open champion (TIME, July 19), had been consistent...