[Ads-l] [Non-DoD Source] Re: antedating African Golf (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill CIV (US)]

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Yikes.  That's two date errors since the weekend.  I am sorry for that.

When I found the 1915 cite, I didn't have access to newspapers.com, so I didn't get it from there.  It was from ProQuest Historical Newspapers, I think. 

Newspaperarchive.com yields this:

_Galveston [TX] Tribune_ 13 May 1915 p 5 col 3
"And now some iconoclast suggests that an up-to-date title for the ancient and honorable game of "craps" would be "African golf.""

N'archive had what was ostensibly a 1914 cite, but was actually 1920.

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> The digital file for the Anniston [AL] Star 1 Jan 1900 p 24 col 6 is incorrectly dated.
> The paper itself does not list the date at the top of all of the pages; but that particular page lists its circulation numbers for the year 1930.  If
> you go back to page 1 of the same newspaper file, it actually shows page 1 for 1900; but if you go through that paper page-by-page, you
> also see a page dated 1924.  So, something is amiss.
> 
> Your 1915 example may still be the oldest.
> 
> Tourists Roll Into Tallulah After Trip's Pleasantest Day NED M'INTOSH The Atlanta Constitution (1881-2001); Oct 3, 1915; pg. 12 col 1.
> "The tourists played African golf tonight around a big bonfire in front of the Cliff house."
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> The oldest example I found when I did my blog post on "Baby needs a new pair of shoes" and "African Golf" was July 1916.
> Newspapers.com shows an earlier one in 1916; but the 1915 example does not show up in a search (although you can see it by browsing to
> the date and page).
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> > Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 18:02:16 +0000
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