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 (1st
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 (2nd August 1935)
Doc Dill eased himself off a bad spot
with putters and sling shots!
The Little Guy
Sport Story (2ndSeptember 1935)
Sure, he was little—but Jimmy Larkin
knew how to cut down the big ones!
Boss Hazard
Sport Story (1st November 1935)
A caddy plays a long shot to help
Stanley Carr overcome the boss hazard!
Caddy Cure
Sports Story (1st Sept
1936)
Pat Faraday
gave old Klum plenty of what was needed!
Candid Golf
Sport Story (2nd
Oct 1937)
Joe Marsh gave Rance Shotter plenty of what was needed!
Duffer Bait
Sport Story (2nd Nov 1937)
Ray Keef
set out after the thing he wanted—even if he had to resort to duffer bait!
Miracle Clubs
Sport Story (1st 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 (1st
August 1930)
Bobby Clayton finds that love and golf
are both full of traps!
Keep Your Eye On The
Bull
Sport Story (2nd
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 (1st
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 (1st
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!
Have you found many of these issues posted online yet?
ReplyDeleteI have a lot of them in the original magazines...
ReplyDeleteI'm always on the lookout for Gault sports fiction particularly...if I see some more beyond those I've reviewed on my blog a while back, I'll seek to mention them. (I collect the original pulps as well, but I've been slacking off of late for several reasons...and one does have to dig a Little deeper for sports pulps.)
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