Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...luxurious third-floor apartment of Havana's rococo presidential palace, bachelor Ramón Grau San Martin had finished his morning cup of sweet black coffee. On the stroke of 9 he walked down the private stairway to his office below. He was ready for a day-long procession of visitors...
...first nine, went five holes ahead. Then Willie won five holes in a row to tie it up. At the 27th Willie went one up. On the next five holes Dick Chapman, playing the best golf of his career, racked up four pars and a birdie; Turnesa matched him stroke for stroke. On the 33rd Chapman faltered, missed a six-foot putt, and Turnesa took the hole. On the 34th, with a chance to stay in the running by halving, Chapman worried over his crucial putt for a full five minutes. Then he missed it. He turned to the crowd...
...believe that he was only 29 (a weather-beaten, tweedy fellow, he could pass for 40), until he pulled out his press clippings. Sure enough, in 1935 he was the 17-year-old boy wonder who won the South African Open. His playing was old style. His stroke was a throwback to the basic Harry Vardon type of "inside-out" swing (most modern pros punch the ball more). He liked long, narrow fairways, for he specialized in consistently straight drives (average: 250 yards). The way he explains it: "Just a simple twist of the wrist, old fellow...
With one down in the last of the seventh, pinch-hitter Robert (Tie) Cobb leaped high in the air to stroke the 0 and 2 pitch out of the premises with one mate aboard...
...Lowell: Stroke, Prescott; 7, Roll; 6, Erskine; 5, Morse; 4, Winslow; 3, Potter; 2, Hellor; bow, Watson; cox, Allen. Kirkland: Stroke, Shoemaker; 7, Murphy; 6, Cadoret; 5, Bingham; 4, Callahan; 3, Palmer; 2, Brooks; bow, W. Lowe; cox, Harris. Leverett: Stroke, Hopewell; 7, McKearney; 6, Friedman; 5, Mayer; 4, Baker; 3, Clark; 2, Lacy; bow, Haynes; cox, Elliot...