Word: holing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...light of the moon Nicholas Morris of San Antonio, Texas, teed off at 12.40 a.m. to break the golf marathon record (257 holes) set a month ago by Rudolph Supan, of Cleveland. Morris quit at 7.50 that night after having traversed 290 holes (more than 16 full 18-hole rounds). He averaged 85 shots a round...
Attempts to destroy the Black Hole Monument in Calcutta culminated in numerous arrests after conflict with the police...
Georgia's fatted calf is dead. They killed it for Bobby Jones. By virtue of one startling shot from the deep grass on the 18th hole at Inwood, Jones won, in addition to the open golf championship, one of the greatest " feasts of honor" ever heaped on a Georgia table and a resolution of appreciation from the Georgia legislature. Only was there an echo from Alaska missing. Possibly the sight of Hurricane Gulch, Alaska, persuaded Mr. Harding that bunkers are trivial affairs after all. "But," protest the politicians, " he should respect the golfing voters. There are only...
...Bobby Bruce tradition is Bobby Cruickshank of Scotland and Shackamaxon who swung gamely beside Bobby Jones at Inwood. But he must try again, though on his first notable effort he swung up from behind, tied Jones, and forced a swing-off. Jones won by two swings at the 30th hole...
...when the driver of the Presidential automobile had brought it to a stop to avoid running over two baby grouse, "no bigger than hickory nuts." The President had likewise committed himself to the plan of local boosters to add 400,000 acres to the Park by annexing the Jackson Hole country and part of the Teton Range...