Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When the National Press Club held its annual Anchors Aweigh party, the President motored down to Quantico, Va. to throw out the first ball in the game between Congressmen and Newshawks. Having waited at the Marines' ball park for 15 minutes in a downpour without seeing any signs of his hosts, he drove down to the dock where the party had remained weatherbound on the steamer which had brought it from Washington. On the gangplank he witnessed the presentation by Senator Tom Connally of a new Texas sombrero to Vice President Garner in restitution for one Mr. Garner lost...
...distance - 920 yd. 19 in. Snead weighs 170 lb., uses a full swing and beautifully balanced body shift, usually hits a low, long-rolling ball with a slight hook. Second prizes went to Bruce Coltart of Philadelphia, for an aggregate of 890 yd. 34 in., Horton Smith of Oak Park, Ill. for a drive...
...John Hay ("Jock") Whitney's three-year-old race horse Flying Scot, ridden by Jockey John Gilbert: the Withers Stakes, feature race of the week at Long Island's Belmont Park; by two lengths, with Charing Cross second. Morning before the race, Flying Cross, owned by Jock Whitney's cousin Cornelius Vanderbilt (''Sonny") Whitney, and also entered in the Withers, fell dead of heart failure while being exercised...
Four years ago this month one George Combes, putting on the 18th green of the Dyker Beach Park Municipal Golf Course in Brooklyn, N. Y., was struck in the eye by a ball driven from the fourth tee by one Edward Applestein. Last week, agreeing with Golfer Combes's contention that the City of New York "created a hazardous condition when it placed the fourth tee and the 18th green too close together," a jury awarded him $10,000 of the city's money for the loss...
...Commencement Day exercises begin with the Class Chapel Service conducted by the Reverend Charles E. Park, of the First Church of Boston. This will be followed immediately by traditional "Commencement Parts" addresses and the presentation of honorary degrees and the degrees to students by President Conant...