Word: holing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crucifix. Two or three blood-red cloth carnations sprout from the jacket's inside pockets. Still another assemblage presents a shoe embedded in a plaster block. Where the toe dared to protrude from the block, it is chopped off in procrustean fashion; a carnation sprouts from the gaping hole...
...Points are scored by driving the cloth ball off a slanting 3-ft.-wide wall called the tambour (the monastery's flying buttress) at unreturnable angles, or by knocking it into rectangular openings called the winning gallery and the dedans (cloister) or a 3-ft. 1-in. square hole in the wall called the grille (buttery hatch). A player may also score points in "the chase," which means dropping placement shots into blocked-off sections marked on the floor...
LoPucki's match went the full eighteen holes, but the Crimson captain denied his opponent, Mike Porter, and opportunity to tie the match by winning the hole to triumph 2 up. LoPucki and Porter have played each other for three years, but this was LoPucki's first win over Porter, who was Easterns champ last year. However, neither played particularly impressive golf on Saturday...
...crucial match, which could have give Harvard the victory, was Barney Oldfield's against Indian Jim Cox. Oldfield was 2 down with 3 to go on the 16th green. He had a 3-foot putt for a birdie and a possible win on the hole. A damaged green prevented his putt from falling in. Cox sank his putt for a birdie and defeated Oldfield...
Dartmouth sophomore Marshall Gavre, an Easterns semifinalist, inflicted the most damage, handing captain Bruce LoPucki his first loss of the season, 4 and 3. After winning his first three holes, LoPucki fell apart, losing the next five. By the 12th hole it was evident that he was going to drop the match...