Word: stroked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...round the first tee at Miami last week as he drove off for the final round of the La Gorce Open, with $15,000 up in prizes, was bigger than usual. Sarazen was leading the field. People who weren't following him dropped back to watch Cruickshank, a stroke behind. Johnny Farrell started late. Few spectators bothered...
...tenth and fell in behind Farrell. And when Farrell came up to the sixteenth needing only two par holes to win, all the people who had been scattered over the club grounds formed into lanes on each side of the fairway. Farrell came to the eighteenth with a two stroke lead, purposely drove over the heads of the crowd into the tenth fairway, pitched his approach to the flag and sank his putt, winning $5,000. Cruickshank got $2,500, Sarazen...
Crew A will be handicapped in the distance grind by the absence of P. W. Wilson '30 and C. S. Petrusch '30 from the 5 and 7 seats. The substitutes for these men have not yet been named. A. C. Gray '30 will set the stroke for Crew...
...Norton '29 is still out of action owing to illness and his position at 3 on Crew B will be taken by an alternate. This boat is still regarded as a strong contender against the favored eights C and D. M. R. Brownell '30 is the stroke for the B crew...
Captain John Watts '28, James Lawrence '29, M. R. Brownell '30, and A. T. Gray '30 have been placed at stroke on the four eights. C. McK. Norton '29, who stroked the Junior University crew last year, has been placed at 3 on Brownell's crew for the present. He is out of action temporarily on account of illness. Of the other strokes, Watts' ability is a known quantity, and Lawrence is having his first college stroking experience, having rowed bow on the second crew last year. Brownell was at 6 on the Freshman boat after stroking...