Antedating "the yips" OED 1963-->1943 :: Fwd: "yips" - Word of the Day from the OED (UNCLASSIFIED)

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Barrie Payne, "Barks and Bites at Hole Nineteen" _The American Golfer_
Sept 1933, Vol. 36, Iss. 12 p 30 col 3
" ""-always yips, 'bad luck' when he takes a seven, but you'll notice he
never yells, 'good luck' after a birdie." "
[Not clear if "yips" is noun, as most of the cites in this thread are,
or verb "to yelp, holler".  Probably the latter.]


Grantland Rice, "Putting Poison" _The American Golfer_ Mar 1935, Vol.
38, Iss. 6 p 20 col 1
" It brings on a case of the jitters or the yips that has given its
deadly poison to such golfers as Harry Vardon, George Duncan, Bobby
Jones, Walter Hagen and several others I might mention. "

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> Here is a cite a couple years earlier written by the same sports
> columnist. Once again the golfer Tommy Armour is featured. The
> journalist, Grantland Rice, has placed the term yips within quotes:
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> Cite: 1936 January 14, The (Baltimore) Sun, "Hagen Predicts Faster
> Golf This Year Than Ever Before" by Grantland Rice, Page 11, Column 7,
> Baltimore, Maryland. (ProQuest)
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>                       "Yips" Got Him
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> It was Tommy Armour who said that golf would be the greatest
> competition in the world - the finest of all sporting tests - if it
> wasn't for putting.
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> "When those nerves in the wrists begin to hop," Armour said, "there is
> nothing to be done about it not even by a Hagen or a Jones, a Vardon
> or anyone else. When the 'yips' set in you are gone. Bobby Jones never
> knew what the 'yips' were until his Augusta tournaments and then he
> told me he would just as soon be nicked by a rattlesnake."
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> Garson
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> Garson O'Toole wrote
> > Thanks for posting about this interesting word-of-the-day, Victor.
> > Based on the great cites that you found I formulated a query and was
> > able to push the date back a bit further. In the 1938 newspaper
> > article below the professional golfer Tommy Armour is interviewed
and
> ...
> Victor Steinbok  wrote ...
> >> http://bit.ly/96LwrS
> >> The Nation's Business. Vol. 35. 1947
> ...
> >> Then, there is the following--and it's not even from any golf
context!
> >> http://bit.ly/b3Yaoh
> >> Timothy Fuller. This is Murder, Mr. Jones. 1943 [WorldCat gives a
> >> somewhat ambiguous pub. date of 1945 with copyright of 1943, but
both
> >> Harvard and BPL have copies (offsite) and both catalogues list it
as 1943.]
> >> p. 82
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