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Arthur Potter is a wader, diver, gambler. He earns his living wading and diving for golf balls that inefficient golfers plop into water hazards at the Marine & Field Club, Brooklyn. He picks up dollars from unsuspecting golfers passing by, by suggesting that he can drive a certain narrow green nearly 300 yards away. Unsuspecting golfers doubt it. "Betcha," says Gambler Potter. "Betcha," answer unsuspecting, greedy golfers. Potter drives the green...
...Clare Briggs uses a No. 170 pen, scorns to end his strips with "plop" or "bam," loves circuses, attended the University of Nebraska. "The Days of Real Sport" are his own never-finished childhood...
...discontinuity where modern zoologists and paleontologists read continuity, in the speciation of plants and animals.) Rat. Dr. William McDougall, onetime Oxonian, now Harvard's preeminent psychologist, demonstrated what an intelligent creature is the rat. Into a box with 14 latches the speaker put some cheese. Sniff, scratch, scrabble-plop, and in went a white rat, all the latches flapping open after him, to nibble contentedly. Spectators cheered. Eclipse. Professor H. H. Turner endeared himself to the British working public by agitating for a special holiday, next June 29, a holiday to be spent by patriots in flocking...
...place a huge pork roast was the kingpin of the fare. What if it were not thoroughly done? Those Michigan boys are too excited to care. Many ate, tearing at the flesh, gulping it with oversweet coffee. At the game the Illinois and Michigan elevens lined up. Whistle. Plop! The kickoff. In ten minutes "Red" Grange made four touchdowns. The Michigan spectators felt sickish. More kickoffs. Touchdowns for this team, for that. Loud and long the cheers. Here and there someone on the Michigan stands grimaced. His stomach griped him. Pork is a heavy thing to eat, burdensome when...
Sleek Walter Hagen, winner in 1924, began his round against Al Watrous of Grand Rapids, in ragged form. "Plop" went his ball into an impossible lie behind a tree. With a deep-faced mashie he hooked it up, out, around, and over a few more trees-popped it onto the green, putted in for a birdie 3. Cheered, he took the match from Watrous in 39 holes. Later he took one from Leo Diegel, sinking a great circling putt that put out Diegel's heart...