Word: sands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Holy Cross band did a fine and courteous thing in playing a Harvard tune first, and then when the Harvard band played and the general expectation was that they would be equally courteous, they not merely failed to play a Holy Cross tune, but played and Harvard sand--a Harvard-Yale football song...
...twelfth green. A ball glistened 15 feet from the pin. It was Gunn's. Another huddled in the sand of a nearby pit. It was Jones'. Both had played their third shots. The champion was one down. He grasped a niblick and walked into...
...idly wondered how Von Elm had liked the way they had drawn some of the already-retiring tees still further back. How had he liked the look of that shaggy carry to the sixth green, or that oblique yawn in the eighth fairway that it took 450 tons of sand to fill? Had he often made a more perilous march than down the 601-yard twelfth, where they had smoothed the deep bunkers to dissemble innocence and the far pin retreated like a mirage...
...Southampton. The unplumbed, salt, estranging sea is no friend to tennis players. It sends its fogs to swell catgut strings so that a dry day will snap them; it strangles the buoyant spirits of balls; its rains rot turf, soften sand. All these things it did at Southhampton last week, but the annual invitation tournament went smoothly on. There was only one upset-the defeat of Alfred Chapin by Cedric A. Major of Manhattan. Young George Lott of Chicago easily ended the hopes of upstart Major, and was himself defeated in the finals by Howard Kinsey, last year...
...there were. Not far off, the heavy swells, uprearing to heaven, toppled forward in streaming white tumult and stretched away into a flat boil, as smaller waves will over a jutting reef or sand...