Word: puttering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tiger Cats. This department can scarcely putter about any longer with the season's drama without presenting to its followers the uncomfortable observation that the season's drama is a most gaunt and tattered contribution to the Theatre's annually increasing family. Two good plays only have come in (What Price Glory? and The Guardsman). The prospects of a weedy fall crop were cer tified when David Belasco's opening production went onto the first night threshing-floor and returned an incredibly low per cent of entertainment. Just why the autumn's offerings, while high...
...open title. Last week, golfdom's shadow of doubt about him as a match-player was dissipated when he beat W. T. Thompson (Canadian champion) 6 and 5; D. C. Corkran (Gold Mashie winner, tournament medalist) 3 and 2; R. E. Knepper (onetime Princetonian, demon putter) 6 and 4; Francis Ouimet (onetime amateur and open champion, clockwork putter, inexorable match-player) 11 and 10; then...
...18th green of the Beaconsfield course at Montreal, Que., a golf ball nestled close to the hole. Since sailing off the first tee it had been smitten only 68 times. Up walked A. H. Murray, professional at the Montreal Country Club, proprietor of the ball. He seized his putter, twitched his wrist, the ball rolled askew, missed the cup. Undismayed, Murray whisked it in on his 70th stroke. He had won the Canadian Professional Championship (open to Canadians only) by a two-stroke margin. Nicol Thompson, of Hamilton, "ran up" with 146 strokes...
Match play suited Upson until the semifinal. There he became impaled on the putter of W. H. Taft of Dartmouth, who promptly sank back 6 and 5 before the Nordic siege-gunner, Dexter Cummings, defending champion. To the Intercollegiates a two-year victory was unique...
...Western Golf Association. Her score for the three days' play was 256. Her nearest competitors were Miss Virginia Wilson with 264, Mrs. Dave Gaut (272), Mrs. Lee Mida, defending champion (274). The one-time Elaine Rosenthal is the wife of S. L. ("Spider") Reinhart, famed Yale footballer, shot putter and boxer of half a decade ago. She previously won the Women's Western...