Word: golfed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ruth's individual record (set in 1927) of 60 home runs in a season. With a golf-like swing, Babe Ruth used to send the ball to towering heights, drop it in the bleachers or loft it over the right-field roofs. Mize, a competent workman with none of the Babe's color and crowd appeal, drills out line-drive homers by main force. This week he was slightly ahead of the Babe's 1927 pace. But to keep up with it, Mize will have to put on a mighty late-season spurt. In setting the record...
...always looking for new worlds to conquer. Before she had completely established her title as the greatest woman athlete in history, she set two records in the 1932 Olympics. Once she scored 106 points in a basketball game. In the past two years, she has won every top golf title open to an amateur except the U.S. Women's Open, and she has won her last 17 tournaments...
Last week, "Babe" Zaharias turned professional for keeps.† She announced that she had accepted a Hollywood contract to make ten movie shorts on golf for $300,000. The once boyish Babe, now 34 and given to silly hats and nail polish, made it clear that the decision was not entirely her own: "George and I talked it over for a long while and he finally said O.K." George is her 300-lb. husband, known in his wrestling days as the Weeping Greek from Cripple Creek, one of the few men who can sometimes better her average (240 yards...
Condition of the athletes on the south bank of the Charles is reported prime from intense intramural golf tourneys and tennis matches...
...expect to find the capitalist in your shop. . . . Look for him on the golf course. It is there that he will tell you that without him, the industry could not function...