Word: holes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
When he bet Actor Bing Crosby the he could beat him with a baseball bat, shovel and a garden rake, the match ende after one hole because Montague started off with a birdie, using the rake as putter. With golf clubs, he almost neve scores above the 60s. His best score : 61, made at Palm Springs, where he lowered the course record every day for four days in a row. Two years ago Golfer Von Elm said he had played golf with Mysterious Montague for a month without seeing him score above...
...retired, able Wartime Commander of the Cruiser & Transport Force whose convoys transported 2,511,047 soldiers across the Atlantic without a single loss; of pneumonia; in Philadelphia. He commanded the Mayflower, later the Presidential yacht on its 1903 geodetic survey cruise which charted the Atlantic's deepest hole (27,984 ft.) off Puerto Rico, supervised construction of the first U. S. torpedo factory at Newport, initiated ship refuelling...
...long been sidestepped, the Council merits praise for a certain degree of courage, and in placing comprehensive data before University Hall, it is rendering an important service. But when it attempts to answer the question it raised--what should be done about it--the Council put itself into a hole. Very little can be done about it. On the one hand there is the traditional freedom which Harvard gives its students to study or not to study, and thus to educate themselves. On the other is the undeniable fact that this freedom is abused by many and consequently, the logical...
Skillman's "Squash Racquets" fills a much neglected and scantily treated hole in the squash-player's library. To the beginner there is no comparison in the superiority of his 190-page book over that of Harry Cowles' compressed volume. Skillman proceeds at leisure over the same ground which the "Art of Squash Racquets" tries to cover in 88 pages. He is more precise in his instructions. For example: instead of merely telling the novice always to return to the center of the court, he shows him exactly where his feet should be while waiting at the center...
...Last week, what U. S. golfers have been expecting ever since arrived in the form of an announcement: "The preambles to the Rules of Golf have been amended, to read as follows: 'The game of golf consists in a ball being played from the teeing ground into the hole by successive strokes, with clubs (not exceeding 14 in number). . . .'" The new rule will go into effect...