Word: holes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, before 2,000 spectators, Hurdler Towns and Tommy Roberts (ridden by Private Marvin Henry) raced. Hurdler Towns ran off to a long, early lead. Between the fourth and fifth hurdles he stepped in a hole, was thrown off stride. Tommy Roberts came on rapidly. Over the last hurdle Towns squeezed ahead to break the tape, but mainly because Tommy Roberts tried to jump it. The result: Hurdler Towns by a nose in 13 sec. flat. Said he: "I'll take two-footed racers in the future...
When Richard Male's iron shot from the 7th tee hit an apple tree, it stuck in the crotch, 15 ft. from the ground. He conceded the hole. When Reynolds Smith's ball rolled into a hole made by one of Oregon's gophers, the United States Golf Association's general counsel searched his rule book, finally found a clause providing that a ball may be moved without penalty if it enters a hole made by a "burrowing animal " The U.S.G.A.'s President John U Jackson pronounced the galleries the biggest since Bobby Jones retired...
...late August day on one of those Southern New England trains which are in the habit of slowly running from Boston to Woods Hole. The train being in mid-journey and no immediate prospect of things quickly becoming either better or worse, the Vagabond was perhaps justified in assuming his habitual vacant air, which is to say neither better nor worse, glad...
...historic letter was published in 1919, suggesting that Britons voluntarily contribute 20% of their capital wealth to the Government to help it out of its post-War hole. The letter was signed F. S. T. but few Britons figured out that the author was the then Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Stanley Baldwin, more recently Prime Minister, today a venerable, bumbling peer...
...went down behind the rolling meadows of Kentucky one evening last week and an almost full moon sailed up over Maysville. Verl Stinchcomb, Maysville Country Club professional, started out to play nine holes of nocturnal golf, with two club members tagging along. The flight of a golf ball cannot be followed even in full moonlight so Golfer Stinch comb had to keep his shots straight down the fairway in order to find his ball. He made a birdie and an eagle, lost no balls, finished with a nine-hole score of 35, one under...