Word: welsh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...having a roaring good time in the North & South Amateur at Pinehurst, a match-play event where one badly bungled hole is not so costly as in medal play. In the second round, Billy Joe put out Defending Champion Bill Campbell, a U.S. Walker Cup player; later, Alex Welsh, a lawyer from Rockford, 111., upset the former U.S. and British amateur champion, Dick Chapman. Welsh and Billy Joe met in the final, scheduled for 36 holes...
...down on the 35th hole, Billy Joe Patton plunked his tee shot into a trap, but staved off defeat by blasting out and sinking a ten-foot putt while Welsh was getting his par in a more conventional manner. Despite a tee shot deep into the woods, Patton won No. 36, to even matters with another scrambling par. "I never let well enough alone," observed Billy Joe with a grin as he watched his tee shot dribble into the rough beside a bush in the extra-hole playoff, where one miscue meant the match. "Here I go putting the ball...
Billy Joe played his trick shot, lacing a No. 6 iron through a narrow opening, up and over a yawning trap, and landing the ball about 45 feet from the pin. After his approach putt, Billy Joe was still five feet away, while Welsh had a mere two-footer. Patton confidently plunked his five-footer into the cup. Welsh, finally unnerved by Billy Joe's breezy confidence, missed the two-footer and lost the match...
...play is not fitting as Thomas' last work, for he has banished gloomy presentiments and shot through each line with vigor of life. His subject is one day in a small Welsh town and the life of its people. It is not an important day: the people dream--of the past, and of lovers, and of the dead. They work while the postman brings news of the day and of each other. They eat, and some pray, and some debauch; then they sleep. It is the daily cycle which Thomas found always fresh and with meaning. Without pretense or confusion...
Thomas' own language intensifies the drawback of reading any work designed for radio. He achieves poetry in his choice of phrase, not in formal rhythm; and he has dotted the script with Anglo-Welsh words, melodic to the ear but distracting visually. Also the same use of alliteration which often makes the play smoothly sing out, is occasionally handled less skillfully: "Now in the light she'll work, sing, milk, say the cows' sweet names and sleep until the night sucks out her soul and spits it into the sky. In her life-long love light, holily Bessie milks...