Word: putt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Snead's colleagues feared that he might be doubly dangerous on his home course, they were exactly right. Except for a momentary lapse when he bungled a piddling putt, he gave his hillbilly neighbors something to chaw over. He took a two-under-par 68 on each of the first two rounds, a 69 on the third and then, after trailing Ky Laffoon by one stroke at the 63rd hole, the pride of White Sulphur Dreezed through the final nine in a whirlwind 32 for a seven-under-par total of 273 -and first prize...
These include: the great Jones Beach (where 130,000 bathers can throw horseshoes, pitch-putt-golf, listen to opera, row their babies on South Oyster Bay or diaper them in a room specially set aside, and "build their bodies" under free instruction facilities); Jacob Riis Park (which has the world's largest one-unit parking space -14,000 cars); Orchard Beach on Pelham Bay (where 100,000 bathers can cavort on 6,600,000 cu. yd. of ocean sand of which 2,500,000 was hauled from Rockaway); Bethpage Park (where the near-rich can play polo...
...started was a nationwide golf-marathon craze-173 holes, 196 holes, 231 holes, 235 holes, posted almost daily by husky young caddies, schoolboys and even a Chicago housewife out to prove that 144 holes from dawn to dusk was nothing extraordinary. When a Northwestern University freshman played 301 holes, putt-putting around on a scooter bike, J. Smith Ferebee, nettled by such theft of his thunder, announced that he was embarking on a golf marathon to end all golf marathons: 600 holes in four days-a minimum of 72 holes in each of eight different cities (two a day) from...
...this year it was Patty's day. While Mrs. Page, green-shy after taking three putts on the very first hole, flubbed around the greens, Patty, wearing trousers, played as though she had her ball mesmerized. In the afternoon round, with her mother nervously watching from the fringe of the crowd, she got seven one-putt greens in 13 holes, avenged last year's defeat on the 31st green...
...however, the greater part of the gallery of 300 trudged around after lanky, woolly-topped Howard Wheeler of Atlanta-watched him tee up on the edge of a match folder, shuffle along the fairways in a Stepin Fetchit gait, plop down on the greens while waiting his turn to putt. A onetime professional whose occupation has been "just walkin' round" since he lost his job at Atlanta's Lincoln (Negro) Country Club in 1933. 29-year-old Howard Wheeler proved last week that he could still teach folks a few golfing tricks. With a minimum of effort...