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...hero of this exhibition is a shipping clerk who mixes up his adverbs and can get 300 yards from the tee. In return for curing his round employer's slice, he gains a guest card to the latter's country club. He drops a spoon shot on a lady's backbone and, while apologizing, falls in love. Advertised by his host as the heir to $80,000,000, he wins the lady. Her indignation is extensive when, in a hotel room, he reports his penury, a condition which renders her in his eyes and in her nightgown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Aug. 17, 1925 | 8/17/1925 | See Source »

...Portland, Me., a nervy novice; the Conclusion finally rested at the 18th green, 1 up. Along came pouring rain and sure-putting Mrs. H. D. Sterrett of Hutchinson, Kan. The Conclusion wavered before those pitiless putts that streaked for the hole over yards of squashy turf. Near the tenth tee grew a four-leaf clover. It was picked, pensively. Near the 18th cup lay Mrs. Sterrett's ball, only a short span to go for a birdie, a tie, an extra hole. The putt was missed. Then the Griswold trophy was presented to its winner, for keeps, since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Golf: Aug. 10, 1925 | 8/10/1925 | See Source »

From the comparative security of the first tee, the Earl and his party gazed down upon the struggle, resolutely determining to play with no bears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Game of Golf | 7/27/1925 | See Source »

...Tarrytown, N. Y. The day before his 86th birthday, John Davison Rockefeller hastily gulped down a bowl of hot milk toast, went out to the first tee of his little 9-hole course, drove off. When he finished the round, he stated that his score was 48-an assertion smirkingly corroborated by his caddy. "The best 86-year-old golfer in the world," said his friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Golf: Jul. 20, 1925 | 7/20/1925 | See Source »

...neatest tee you ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Point With Pride: Jul. 13, 1925 | 7/13/1925 | See Source »

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