Word: holing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...field including such foes as "Ham" Gardner (Buffalo), Frank Wattles Jr. (Buffalo), E. H. Driggs Jr. (Garden City, L. I.). ¶ At Brookline, Mass., the Massachusetts State title went for the sixth time to aging Francis Ouimet, onetime (1914) national amateur champion, after he established a six-hole lead on youthful Winthrop Hersey (Wellesley) with a 68 in the morning round of their match...
...five . . . six . . . seven." But Neutz, holding ace, king, queen, jack and four low spades, and supported by his partner, went up to seven spades, began to play them. On every trick Donahue discarded a diamond; he had held 13 of them, a perfect hand-many times rarer than a hole in one at golf. The stupidity of his initial bid robbed him of a chance...
...Saint Albans, England. A great gallery came out from London to see "Long" James Barnes, Open Champion of Great Britain (TIME, July 6), play a 36-hole match against Abe Mitchell, watched him hook, slice, dig, and go down to defeat 7 up and 6 to go, after winning only 3 holes...
...Tarrytown, N. Y. The day before his 86th birthday, John Davison Rockefeller hastily gulped down a bowl of hot milk toast, went out to the first tee of his little 9-hole course, drove off. When he finished the round, he stated that his score was 48-an assertion smirkingly corroborated by his caddy. "The best 86-year-old golfer in the world," said his friends...
Canadian Champion. Americans crossed the border stalking the Canadian Amateur Golf title. They soon collapsed. Max R. Marston, crinkly-haired 1923 U. S. Amateur Champion, was let down at the 38th hole by C. Ross Somerville of the London (Ont.) Hunt Club. George H. ("Porky") Flynn of Pittsburgh, a familiar young figure on Long Island links, passed away before Don Carrick of Toronto in the next round, 2 down. Carrick and Somerville were the finalists, the former spurting steadily ahead...