Word: tees
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thoroughgoing readers of either Scribner's magazine or the New York Herald Tribune will immediately give the name of Royal Cortissoz (pronounced Kor-tee-zus). A small, chunky, lively gentleman with iron-grey hair, moustache and goatee, he has conducted Scribner's art department for six years and the Herald Tribune's for 38. No art critic in the U. S. exhibits a more dignified, fastidious, yet spirited approach to his subject. None writes with more alertness and lucidity. Through all his years of professional journalism, Royal Cortissoz has preserved the gusto of an amateur...
...fifth. On the second nine he made every hole in four except two that he made in two. In the afternoon he made one mistake-he took a six on the seventeenth. Smith, who was playing up behind him, heard about it as he started for the sixteenth tee. He knew that three pars were all he needed to beat Jones. Other golfers have been in this position, and have taken three eights, but Smith just did what he wanted to, and saw his name put up in first place when he posted his score-Horton Smith, unattached. His score...
...curlers use irons, but in Winnipeg, as in Edinburgh and other conservative places they use 35-lb. stones-solid bowls of granite or whinstone, beautifully smooth, with a twist of handle on top. Each side has four players, each player two stones. Players slide the stones at a tee at the end of a 114-ft. rink. One man runs his stone up dead; his partner lays one to protect him. If a deft opponent may skid between them, knocking both aside, curlers say he gie'd them breeks...
...Thomas Alva Edison went golfing for the first time in her life at Fort Myers, Fla. She missed her tee shot, drove 90 yd. on her second try, finished nine holes in 99. Next day she ordered a set of clubs. Her husband is no golfer...