Word: stroking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very sleek and ungraceful, leans back a little as his racquet meets the ball. He never seems particularly concerned with what he is doing. No matter how fierce his match, he always has an air of being one of the linesmen. He depends for success on his celebrated chop-stroke- a shot which he executes with the same twist of the wrist that a chef in the front window of a low-grade restaurant employs to turn a pancake. The ball skims the net low, finds corners and clips lines with uncanny accuracy, bounces; extremely low. With it, Johnson clipped...
...champion had not had occasion to deal with that chop-stroke for some time. The sort of men who make their bread and butter by betting on mud-horses* were ready to wager that it would bother him. It is true that Tilden has a chop-stroke which-although he does not often use it-is fully the equal of Johnson's; true also that he is equipped with a drive, service, volley, far superior to his opponent's. These things could not have prevented the unexpected from happening-had other causes made the unexpected inevitable. Since...
...years ago he had an attack of apoplexy. He recovered and went on. Last week another stroke came upon him. He struggled, but he died?only 55?of cerebral hemorrhage...
...waiters at the Oakmont Club, on the other hand, knew little, or cared less about Jones, nor had they if the truth were known any high regard for the game of golf. They had heard too many members play around "one of the most difficult courses in the country," stroke by stroke, over their meals, to be enthusiastic. What though Von Elm, Jess Sweetser, Guilford, Mackensie and the rest had come to compete in the National Amateur? The waiters asked questions about the Shenandoah (See Page 31); they interested themselves in the acrobatics of dice and the scores of distant...
Until that moment, young Gunn was the protagonist. A clever writer, fashioning a story of that morning's play, would make the reader feel that Gunn was going to win. He would dwell on the amazing machine-like perfection of Gunn's every stroke. He would describe how since Jones was playing par golf, Gunn shot under par to win holes from him. He would hint that Gunn could not keep it up. The reader would gather the conviction that Gunn was most certainly going to keep it up. But this would be a literary trick...