Word: palmer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first tee is filled with foursomes; on the practice green, more players stand poised over putts. The game may be golf, but it bears scant resemblance to the pastime of the country-club set. The scene is Detroit's Palmer Park Municipal Golf Course, and among its players are some of the city's best-and best-known-black golfers. The aim is action, bankrolls are at the ready, and the style is straight soul. Indeed, to play Palmer Park is to take a lesson in lively ethnic semantics...
...action is swift, and the stakes can reach several hundred dollars. Regulars bent on a killing will make apparently fatal concessions. Bus Driver Dave Brown, a Palmer Park legend, used to play hackers while standing on one foot, a trick he could perform and still come close to ducking the card...
Unwitting hackers take their lumps from other Palmer Park fixtures such as "Sugar Jim," "Hookin' Walker," the "Prime Minister" and "Clean" Hunkey Clay. Then there is "Stabbing" Eddie Suns, so named because his swing has no follow-through. Sims takes no divots, the experts say. "He digs foundations." Needing a birdie on the par-three ninth hole one day to salvage a tie, Sims boomed a pitchout toward Woodward Avenue. The ball hit the fence, ricocheted back and fell into the cup for a win. The Rev. Floyd Moore resorts to higher tactics. "You know I love the Lord...
While the younger alumni pile into Penn's Franklin Field or Princeton's Palmer Stadium to catch a glimpse of Joe Restic's boys, Randall's always out there cheering on the more unheralded Crimson ambassadors--the cagers, the hockey players, and even the anonymous tennis and track teams on occasion...
...major awards were presented last night at the annual Harvard Club Senior Letter winner's dinner held at the Palmer Dixon Courts. Women athletes participated in the festivities for the first time...