Word: tees
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tommy Armour's 288; at Olympia Fields, Chicago. On the second day of the tournament, detectives discovered that Chicago's Public Enemy No. 4, "Machine Gun Jack" McGurn, was playing in it under his real name of Vincent Gebardi. They arrested him for vagrancy at the eighth tee, where his score was one under par, accompanied him for the remaining holes. Disturbed, Golfer McGurn took an 11 at the 8th, had a card of 86, withdrew...
Near the first tee on the deceptively innocuous-looking course at Hoylake, England, stands a ramshackle hotel where chickens sometimes wander in the corridors. Its proprietor is famed John Ball, who won the British Amateur Golf Championship eight times in 24 years from 1888 to 1912 and played in it every year till this one. No one nowadays is likely to duplicate John Ball's extraordinary record. Unlike its equivalent in the U. S., the British Amateur is played without qualifying rounds. A golfer needs to be exceedingly lucky as well as able to reach, through a long succession...
...part in athletics through a feeling that the existing fee of $10 for a participation ticket and $4 for a locker is too high. By making the fee applicable to all men, it would be possible to reduce it to about $8, at the same time halving the locker tee, and still leave a net increase in revenue to be applied to the budget...
...Ononcock. Va., month ago, Harry Layfleld teed a golf ball, struck it with his mashie, made a hole-in-one on a 105-yd. hole. Within 30 days Golfer Layfield teed the same ball, struck it with the same mashie, sank his tee shot on the same hole...
...Harvard Crimson, "This will have no effect upon our policy of publishing all the general comments of tutors of the various departments received in answer to the recent questionnaire on the tutorial system sent out before Christmas." ... The Lampoon, "Tee...