Word: tees
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus far the. tournament's heroine, Charlotte Glutting soon saw her fun ended. Smiling, pert-nosed Virginia ("Gino") Van Wie (to rhyme with "tee") was too much for her (4 & 3) and the final gallery gathered around to watch a match often played before. Miss Van Wie v. cool, collected Glenna Collett Vare. five times the champion, twice Miss Van Wie's mistress in national finals...
...finalists were both nervous as they started out in the morning. On the first hole Somerville half-topped his first drive, faded a spoon. Goodman topped his second shot. Somerville topped his drive on the second tee. Steadying down, they were all square at the turn, but at the end of the first round Somerville had the edge 1 up. He increased his lead to 2 up in the first two holes of the afternoon, then went ragged. On the 24th Somerville chipped poorly, took two futile putts, finally conceded a 7 to Goodman's cool if not brilliant...
...actual running of the Kentucky Derby, over a mile-and-a-quarter of chocolate-colored loam at Churchill Downs, takes a few seconds more than two minutes. As the horses paraded to the post last week, Crystal Prince shied at the loud band playing "Swanee River." Cee Tee and Tick On made trouble at the barrier. Cee Tee was placed outside and when the barrier finally sprang after 15½ min., Tick On was pocketed behind the field. It took Fator on Brother Joe about a half-mile to find that he had picked the wrong horse. Brother Joe pulled...
...open champion in 1915, sold his seat on the New York Cotton Exchange. With more time for golf, he found his game almost as good as of old, when he was famed for his putting and for playing a rusty old iron off the tee. Last week, like Bobby Jones and George Von Elm, Golfer Travers turned businessman golfer, announced himself willing to play exhibition matches for money but not to hire out as a professional teacher. His first exhibition, and first important match since his elimination in the first round of the 1919 amateur, is scheduled for next month...
...touchdowns, Gill the other. Final score: California 19, Georgia Tech 6. At their annual meeting in Manhattan last week, the Eastern Association of College Football Officials made two suggestions for safer football which will be carefully weighed when the Rules Committee meets in February: 1) that the kickoff tee be restored, the kickoff moved back from the 40-to the 30-yd. line; 2) that, whenever a ball carrier loses his footing, the referee shall blow his whistle immediately instead of waiting for opponents to seize or fall on the carrier...