Word: golfs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...announcement in yesterday's CRIMSON that two golf greens will be constructed on the class football fields near Longfellow track will be warmly welcomed by University golfing enthusiasts. This move, which marks the materializing of the Athletic Committee's recommendation of last December, presents several favorable aspects. Not only is this much desired recognition of golf in accordance with the athletics for all policy inaugurated by Athletic Director William J. Bingham, but it is a partial fulfillment and facilitation of an off-expressed hope that provision for all Harvard athletics, especially golf, may be made in proximity to the college...
...Golfing enthusiasts have long bemoaned the comparative neglect of their favorite sport in comparison to tennis, squash, and similar activities. The erection of two greens on which to practice approach shots will eliminate the necessity of traveling miles to the nearest golf course. A far more important step in the recognition of golf, however, is the securing of Francis Ouimet's services this spring to lay out the greens and to coach the University golf squad. The able services of such a recognized golfing figure will do much to increase the prestige of the sport at Harvard...
...soon as the condition of the ground will permit, the two golf greens, which the Athletic Committee voted to be laid out on the Longfellow Track at Soldiers Field, will be constructed. The laying out of the two greens, for which appropriations were made at the December meeting of the Committee is the first step in a program to encourage golf as a sport in the University...
...lowliest baseball teams which the major leagues have every held over a long period of time. There is no place in America that goes wilder over hockey Football games and boxing matches draw crowds more enthusiastic than those of larger cities, and the annual fixtures in tennis, golf, and track and field are noted on every social calendar...
Able, thorough-going (when he took up golf six years ago, he broke 80 during his first season) Mr. Pelley has had many a knotty problem as Central of Georgia president. During 1927, gross revenue of the Central of Georgia decreased about $4,000,000 or 13.15%. There was a disturbing drop of 25% in passenger business and an even more disturbing drop of 10% in freight business. Both passenger and freight revenue continued to fall during 1928, although their decline was not so precipitate. No fault of Mr. Pelley's however, was this unfortunate situation. It resulted chiefly from...