MORE THRILLING GOLF

MORE THRILLING GOLF

STORIES FROM THE SPORTS PULPS

Here is a sample listing of the many other golf stories and their sizzling teasers to come out of the sports pulps between the 1930s and 1940s...

W. H. TEMPLE

Birdie In Hand

Sports Novels (April 1947)

Willy was Mr. Blow-up of the big money circuit—but take away his guts and you had a golfer!

Siege Gun Kid

New Sports (February 1948)

Together, they fought down the last tough fairway—a guy with a hunger for glory and groceries—and a champion with nothing left but a crown!

Par Buster

New Sports (April 1948)

Finley’s the name, mister. The spook you’re gonna play tomorrow. I may be sayin’ good-bye to the tournament trail after the game, bum, but before I go, I’m gonna blast you off the fairway—for keeps!

Putt And Pray

Fifteen Sports Stories (May 1948)

There wasn’t a golfer who could beat him—nor a gallery that couldn’t!

Sudden Death Fairway

Sports Novels (June 1948)

Before you can win like a champion, you’ve got to learn a much harder thing—how to lose like a gentleman!

Par Master

Sports Novels (July 1950)

This was where he belonged, he knew—on a sudden-death green, with a putt, a prayer, and an impossible par to bust for a dewbird’s last challenge—or a champion’s blazing round!

Green Shy

New Sports (October 1950)

Some guys are born to the long green—some to win on that last big putt. But the make-believe champ from Saugatuck was born to fight to the last holeout—for a million other duffers’ dreams!

Trouble Green

Fifteen Sports Stories (February 1952)

There are lots of ways to win, but just two ways to lose, Sandy MacLean found—and a champ may lose to a course, but never to a better man!

Iron Master

New Sports (February 1950)

The fairway is for fair-weather guys, champ. We’re battling this one out in the rough—where the iron in your heart is worth six in your bag—and a sudden-death green calls—fight!

WILLIAM CAMPBELL GAULT

Heartbreak Fairway

Sports Novels (May 1950)

One stroke down to destiny, he faced a hundred invincible opponents–the phantoms of golfdom’s great, who mocked him, “Any fairway bum can give his all for a legend, are you champ enough to be one?”

Birdie In Hand

Fifteen Sports Stories (April 1951)

This Is the big time, Denny—where a good shot counts just one stroke, an’ the bad ones cost you plenty. You gotta stand up there an’ slam ‘em on the line–or pack up your dreams forever!

Little Mr. Murder

Fifteen Sports Stories (July 1950)

This was a sentimental tourney, but Sam, the money man, was out for the long green, the short putt—and a sudden-death gamble for golfdom’s strangest prize!

JACKSON V. SCHOLZ

Power, Confidence, And Control

Sports Story (1^st Sept 1929)

Mel Burk failed to see any relationship between a paint brush and a golf club, but circumstances combined to convince him they had much in common, for him!

Putters And Sling Shots  

Sport Story (2^nd August 1935)

Doc Dill eased himself off a bad spot with putters and sling shots!

The Little Guy

Sport Story (2^ndSeptember 1935)

Sure, he was little—but Jimmy Larkin knew how to cut down the big ones!

Boss Hazard

Sport Story (1^st November 1935)

A caddy plays a long shot to help Stanley Carr overcome the boss hazard!

Caddy Cure

Sports Story (1^st Sept 1936)

Pat Faraday gave old Klum plenty of what was needed!

Candid Golf

Sport Story (2^nd Oct 1937)

Joe Marsh gave Rance Shotter plenty of what was needed!

Duffer Bait

Sport Story (2^nd Nov 1937)

Ray Keef set out after the thing he wanted—even if he had to resort to duffer bait!

Miracle Clubs

Sport Story (1^st June 1939)

Little Archie Pendergast fights ridicule and inferiority complex to gain himself a place in the sun!

SAM MERWIN, JR.

Ace In A Hole

Sports Novels (May 1948)

A kid with too much brass . . . an oldster with magic in his brassie . . . a spine-tingling duel on the long eighteenth—the green where champions are made!

GILES A. LUTZ

Tee-Off Terror

New Sports (Dec 1948)

He was a never-guy par-buster who couldn’t find himself—or the greens—until a links king called for a showdown to carve out a better man’s glory—or snuf out a has-been’s comeback!

ROSS RUSSELL

The Man Who Called His Shots

All America (Mar 1937)

On the comeback trail, Walter Hogan’s biggest challenge wasn’t overcoming his injuries, but overcoming his legendary reputation!

Old Rubber Wrist

Sport Story Magazine (Mar 1938)

Jim Hardigan always played to win when he could, but lost when he had to!

Gag Golfer

Port Story Magazine (Mar 1941)

Tournament play goes haywire as a trick-shot artist lets loose.

WALTER MARQUISS

Golf Machine

Thrilling Sports (Jan 1937)

Some telepathic current ran through the crowd, telling them this was a grudge match! Tournaments—and a barrel of trouble—make a man out of Mike Malone!

THEODORE J. ROEMER

Par Buster

Sports Novels (Oct 1941)

When the field is knotted and the birdies are hard to find, and you stand at the last windswept tee with only one more par between you and golfdom’s greatest crown, you can remember—“You can lick any bad break in the world, bub, but you gotta lick yourself first.”

The Brassie Kid

Sports Novels (October 1949)

The king was a champ to the end—matching the kid’s brass with a magic brassie—and proving once and for all that the greatest shot in golf is not always the winning one!

HUGH PENTECOST

Murder Plays Through

EQMM (Sept 1954)

Match play can be murder in a tournament where a tour rookie sets the fairways ablaze with vengeance!

HANK WILLARD

Last Hole-Out

Sport Novels (July 1949)

To these eager kids, the eighteenth was just another tough hole; but to Larry it was the final test every fairway bum dreams of—where you sink all your hopes in one, or hang up your battered clubs forever!

Loser Take All

Fifteen Sports Stories (Sept 1949)

A kid with a built-in chip on his shoulder—a champ with his chips on the green...and a last grim holdout for golf’s strangest trophy!

LIONEL E. I. DAY

Fairway Feud

Sports Action (August 1942)

Desperate golf wouldn’t cut Mark’s handicap, and now at the seventeenth green, he’s need to make up for his faltering drives with sensational putts!

JOHN WELLS

Par Spoiler

Fifteen Sports Stories (Nov 1948)

A birdie in hand was worth two off the fairway—to a has-been whose eagles no longer screamed their sudden-death challenge to a par-buster’s glory!

WILLIAM TAMPA

Poison On The Tee

Fifteen Sports Stories (March 1950)

You’ll learn more about a man in eighteen holes than you will in twenty years—especially when the course is parred for masters, trapped for fools, and designed for poison on the tee!

LANCE KERMIT

High Drive Guy

Fifteen Sports Stories (Sept 1948)

Every dewbird likes to turn—but it takes more than courage to call for a fairway showdown for more than glory—and nothing less than oblivion!

Sudden-Death Blaster

Fifteen Sports Stories (Sept 1950)

Holly was a fifth wheel on the Trent College foursome, the little guy who didn’t belong—til that last danger fairway when he matched his iron against sudden-death lightning—for a payoff on a champion’s last green!

ROBERT N. BRYAN

The Long Eighteenth

Sport Story (1^st August 1930)

Bobby Clayton finds that love and golf are both full of traps!

Keep Your Eye On The Bull

Sport Story (2^nd November 1938)

Chet Lane was treed. The bull was beneath him, glaring malignantly. Also, that bull meant to stay there. It pawed the ground with its forefeet, snorting and growling. Chet was marooned!

KINGSLEY MOSES

An Accidental Cupid

Sport Story (1^st July 1927)

It was a terrible moment when the caddie walk in front of Tom Burke’s best niblick shot, and no wonder Dorothy stood speechless in her tracks!

WILLIAM DE LISLE

Death At The Eighteenth Hole

Dime Sports (July 1935)

Under a jungle sun, before a spear-bristling gallery, Crazy Farraday laid his last deadly stymie in a strange golf duel.

TOM TUCKER

Golf Is A Gentleman’s Game

Thrilling Sports (September 1948)

Chip Dawson has the Indian sign on Johnny Trang, but Johnny comes right back at him with links logic!

FRANK KANE

Putt It There    

Complete Sports (January 1950)

Caddy champ he’d be if he holed out now, sure, but there was more at stake than that for Johnny Evers as he addressed that final three-foot putt!

RICHARD BRISTER

Par None

Ten Story Sports (July 1953)

Biff had put all his knowledge and skill into his younger brother, Eddie. But now it seemed Eddie was going to be a choke-up player in the last rounds!

Fairway Fiend

Action Sports Fiction (Aug-Sept 1955)

Sure, golf and nothing but golf could likely win for Johnny, grooving the fairways, using his irons smart, sinking twenty-foot putts. But try and do that against a tournament terror like this Bray!

JACK KOFOED

No Luck

Dime Sports (April 1938)

Unknown, unheralded, Duncan McGregor lashed a golf ball down a fairway lined with gold, studded with peril toward that last bitter eighteenth fairway—and he had to break par to win a national crown which had been overdue for thirty years!

RALPH ROEDER

The Mud Duffer

Sport Story (1^st August 1924)

The famous banker—the millionaire who made Wall Street eat out of his hand—was a ‘duffer’ on the golf course. His friends tried every way imaginable to help his game. Then one day there was a fight among the road laborers!

HELEN HICKS

Blazing The Fairways

Thrilling Sports (March 1939)

Behind the scenes: An expert golfer tees up for a whale of a drive!