Research Catalog

Title

Great American golf stories / edited by Jeff Silverman.

Publication

Essex, Connecticut : Lyons Press, [2023]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

Silverman, Jeff, 1947-

Description

xi, 319 pages; 22 cm.

Summary

"Recapture the golden era of American golf with these wonderful, historic tales about the greatest game ever invented!"--

Series Statement

Lyons Press classics

Uniform Title

Lyons Press classics.

Subject

• Golf > United States > History
• Golf stories, American
• Golf
• United States

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

"The other lure of golf" by Grantland Rice -- "Golf for women" by "Albion" -- "The "super-sensitive golf ball" by Edwin L. Sabin -- "The humorous side of golf" by A.W. Tillinghast -- "Advice to a young golfer" by Max Behr -- "Dormie one" by Holworthy Hall -- "The revenge that went astray" by A.E. Thomas -- "The greatest golf finish I ever saw" by John G. Anderson -- "Hypothetically golf" by Richard Florance -- "Playing alone" by Marrion Wilcox -- "When you play on public links" by Walt Lantz -- "The golden rules of golf" by O.B. Keeler -- "Foursomes" by John M. Ward -- "Golf at the White House" by Heywood Broun -- "Justice Harlan and the game of golf" by Richard Harlan -- "Cowboy golf" by Zane Grey -- "Shush!!!" by Ring Lardner -- "Do we play for pleasure?" by Rube Goldberg -- "Gentlemen, you can't go through!" by Charles E. Van Loan -- "Winning the double crown" by Chick Evans -- "Boy golfer falls before champion" by The New York Times -- "Homebred and foreign pros compared" by Walter Hagen -- "The rub of the green" by William Almon Wolff -- "Golf on the roof" by Adele Howells -- "War and golf" by H.B. Martin -- "The coming invasion" by Francis Ouimet -- "The "curse of the skirt" by Marjorie R.S. Trumbull -- "Hit the ball" by Eddie Loos -- "Women handicapped by men's courses" by Alexa Stirling -- "Why I quit gambling" by Anonymous -- "The Americanization of Archie" by Hugh Fullerton -- Excerpt from Babbit by Sinclair Lewis -- "Forty miles from nowhere" by George Ade -- "Youth Is served again when Gene Sarazen lays low golf's wizards and wins the open" by -- Damon Runyon -- "The tantalus loving-cup" by W.G. Van Tassel Sutphen -- "The joy of golf" by Alvin R. Springer -- "The magic of golf" by Reinette Douglas -- "Winter dreams" by F. Scott Fitzgerald -- "Golf in Hades" by John Kendrick Bangs.

Call Number

JFD 23-1249

ISBN

• 9781493071913
• 1493071912
• 9781493073450 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2022046220

OCLC

1309128595

Title

Great American golf stories / edited by Jeff Silverman.

Publisher

Essex, Connecticut : Lyons Press, [2023]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Lyons Press classics

Lyons Press classics.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Silverman, Jeff, 1947- editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Great American golf stories Essex, Connecticut : Lyons Press, [2023] 9781493073450 (DLC) 2022046221

Research Call Number

JFD 23-1249