Word: holing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Paul T. Bloodsworth,. 28, of Hornell, N. Y.; of excitement; on the Edgemont, N. J., golf course. He had just made a hole...
...horses get to the top of the hill they race for 30 seconds on a level piece of track against the sky and the people in the grandstand can see them for the first time. Flamingo was in front with Ranjit Singh close to him; then came Port Hole and Royal Minstrel and Felstead and Sunny Trace ridden by Gordon Richards, England's premier jockey. They left the level and ran wildly downhill toward the hairpin turn called Tattenham Corner. No horse has a chance unless he is one of the first two or three to get round. Flamingo...
...hour, the water reached the mouth of Edward West. Unable to shout any more, in a few minutes he would be unable to breathe. As he waited for a slow drowning, Edward West saw the face of one George N. Lyman at the top of the narrow hole. George Lyman lowered a ladder, Edward West climbed...
...came slithering toward him. George Hicks flattened himself face downward. The boa slithered over him, stopped. Ten openings opened. Hundreds of humans wriggled into the openings, became corpuscles of the boa. It hissed a little, rolled on over the body of George Hicks, and into a dark hole. George Hicks rose, unhurt, and made for the platform. Again a boa with two small red eyes came toward him, too fast. Again George Hicks salaamed snugly against the dirty groove between two rails. The second, and then a third beast swiftly passed over him, stopped, filled itself with people, slithered away...
...Wethered's drive went straight down the course. So did Perkins's. But Perkins won the first hole and was never down. Several holes were halved, as when Mr. Wethered drove onto a railroad track and Perkins missed a one-yard putt, but in the afternoon on the fourteenth hole it was Mr. Wethered who missed the yard putt, giving Perkins the hole, the match, and the amateur championship. All the U. S. players had been put out in the early rounds...