Word: holing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tall man had come quietly to his side and watched him at his work. The Negro asked his name but the man, as mysterious as a spirit, said merely "I was his friend." The stranger borrowed the Negro's spade and stood with his feet planted in the hole, lifting out the earth. For a moment he leaned back on his shovel; "So this is the end. . . ." he said. Then he stepped out of the grave and went away. In the silence, under a grey sky, the Negro went on digging...
...that nobody accepted, least of all Mitchell who, exhausted and keyed up by waiting, played badly and was badly beaten. This time Hagen, with a tall detective beside him, got to the course an hour early and waited for Compston. The Englishman laid him a stymie at the first hole, was three up at the fifth; Hagen sliced his drive into a ditch at the sixth and picked up; at the seventh Compston outdrove him by 50 yards. Hagen had 148 for the first 36 holes. Compston...
...being a sport; when he played out of a bunker at the twelfth, a retired major with an umbrella shouted "Good cricket" and was silenced by the hisses of people who were afraid his enthusiasm would disturb Hagen's putting. The match ended at the 55th hole with Hagen 18 down...
...feature matches of the day were won on the nineteenth green and three of the others were taken by a one hole advantage. The rival captains, J. A. Hutchinson '28 and Blaney of Williams, fought on even terms for eighteen holes, but the Crimson leader missed his pull on the nineteenth green and thereby lost the match. Joseph Morrill '28 took the other extra-hole match from Williams, the second Purple player...
...been retained on the squad: S. R. Johnson '30, D. M. Proudfoot '29, J. B. Ward '30, and F. H. Soule '30. The cut is by no means final: any man who has been dropped can regain his standing by defeating a member of the squad in a 36 hole match...