Word: ball
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Within the next four days ball, will be mailed to all the active members, about 2300 in all, and the closing date for the receipt of the votes be June 5. On the cards each vote will designate his first and secc choices of the four named...
...most brilliant player in the Ryder Cup matches at Moortown, and because he is something of a golfing freak, the crowds at Muirfield followed him throughout the tournament. His swing is jerky, the face of his club twists sharply at the moment of impact. He lunges at the ball, moves his feet. When he putts, his forearms are parallel to the ground, the shaft perpendicular, the left elbow pointing to the hole, the hands within breathing distance of his stomach in a posture as of prayer. Few tyros try to copy his style, though perhaps it will suit...
...hammers building new subdivisions, changing the plan of Morrisville from an H to a symbol from some oppressive foreign alphabet. Milkman Lovering gets supplanted by the milk trust. A department store replaces Mrs. Barkenteens, where Skippy bought the "chawklets." Mr. Prince, a city man, gives Skippy's ball team uniforms-emblazoned to advertise real estate...
...difference in diameter of 6/100 in., in weight of 7/100 oz., was authorized for standard U. S. golf balls last week by the U. S. Golf Association. The difference may engender international complications next year because the Royal & Ancient Society of St. Andrews, high court of British golf, has refused to change the present standard ball. The new ball is said to make lies better, putting straighter, drives shorter by five or six yards. Because it has more surface and less weight it increases the errors of hookers, slicers...
Coach Davidson, who was in charge in the absence of Coach Mitchell, put W. H. MacHale '31 on the mound. The latter pitched good ball until the eighth, when four hits were bunched off him for two runs. Until this stanza, only one run was secured off his delivery, that in the opening inning when Carlsten, lead-off man for the Red and Blue, clouted a home...