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...years after its founding no woman dared enter the Athenaeum. Only during the past 75 years have the Proprietors' wives been freely admitted. There are other comparatively recent changes. Gone are the "spit-boxes" (as Boston called them) which used to be filled with clean sand twice a week. Signs no longer warn Proprietors and visitors to keep their feet off the tables...
...from the Boston Navy Yard by the Harvard Rifle Club and are to be put in place in the new Stadium range today. Likewise, a 100-watt footlight has been installed in the Stadium for use at the range. There are also 400 gunny sacks to be filled with sand and placed alongside the plates...
Thirty tons of sand and several large steel plates will furnish backing for the targets and insure against stray bullets, while wooden planking, furnished by the H.A.A. will block off the range from the rest of the district underneath the Stadium...
Golfers, perpetually exasperated at themselves, are never satisfied with their equipment. Four years ago they all took up steel shafts. Three years ago they squabbled about sand-wedges. Two years ago they were troubled by the balloon ball. Three weeks ago a new subject for contention arose when Gene Sarazen, British and U. S. Open champion, ill of influenza in a Santa Monica hospital, took it upon himself to suggest that the cups on putting greens be enlarged from 4¼ in. to 8 in. Reason: "A crack player and one just average are playing. The average player puts...
...reached the status of an experiment, seemed a potential crusade. At Pinehurst, N. C. a group of golfers which included William C. Fownes Jr., onetime (1910) amateur champion and onetime (1926-27) president of the U. S. Golf Association, had tried 8-in. cups on a sand green. They thought it made putting too easy. The Pinehurst golfers then tried a 6-in. cup, planned a tournament to see if the members liked it. Eight-inch cups were installed at the Cavalier Country Club, Virginia Beach; Riviera Golf Course, Miami; Palmaceia Course, near Tampa, Fla. Here the second annual Gasparilla...