Word: turfed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shouldn't try it. But when you start getting cautious, you start to lose." Nobody has ever accused Palmer of caution. On the course, he is a duffer's delight: when his putts hang on the lip and his drives stray, Palmer bangs his clubs against the turf, twists his face into a grimace of pain, mutters angrily: "Stop hitting like a woman!" or "Head down, head down, for God's sake!" It is at the crucial moments, when most golfers get rattled and come unstrung, that Palmer plays his best golf. "When I have a feeling...
...project, which will cost approximately $55,000, became feasible when the Metropolitan District Commission announced plans for the South Charles Sewer project. The sewer line, to cut a 25 foot deep path, feet, through Webster Field the Stadium, will displace hundreds of square feet of good quality turf. Rather than sell or destroy the turf, and Grounds is transplanting the turf into the Stadium field, which really recovered from the game two years...
...Australia, as elsewhere, the traditional horse-race prize is a cash purse and a gleaming trophy. But last week in New South Wales, the Bathurst Turf Club announced something new: payment in kind. To the lucky horse that wins the club's big February race for fillies and mares will go one free stud service (worth $1,180) from Tulloch, a famed stallion that won $247,776 before he was retired. "We are convinced," said Club Secretary Gordon Bourke, "that the prize will cause great interest...
...others: Whirlaway, Challedon). This week, with a lucky yellow ribbon wound into his forelock and Old Master Eddie Arcaro in his saddle, Kelso will parade to the post for the most important race of his brief career: the Washington International, 1½ miles over the turf at Maryland's Laurel Race Course. The stakes are a $70,000 winner's purse and the biggest title of them all: best race horse in the world...
...impressive moments for the Crimson Saturday. And it's easy to say, as many do, "If only we hadn't given them the ball those two times..." and "If only Rick Beizer had held onto the pass he almost intercepted in the first quarter with 75 yards of free turf ahead of him and four teammates nearby...