Word: finale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British Amateur is the riskiest tournament in the world because, until the final 36, all matches are at 18 holes-which means that luck rather than skill has a large part in determining the winner. For U. S. players the chief hazards always are the wind (invariably a cross one), a course studded with thick gorse and tricky sand traps, greens that require a pitch-&-run shot rather than the backspin approach most U. S. golfers play. More serious than these natural hazards last week was the luck of the draw which placed the unseeded U. S. Walker Cuppers...
...survivor of the storm was Charley Yates. Playing the most extraordinary golf of the tournament, nonchalant and grinning Yates, who chattered with the galleries between his shots and played the pitch-&-run like a native, proceeded to eliminate: 1) two-time Champion Cyril Tolley in the quarter-finals (during which he made the most sensational shot of the week, an eagle 2 on the 372-yd. second hole), 2) onetime Champion Hector Thomson in the semifinals, and 3) seasoned Cecil Ewing in the final...
...year he graduated from high school with the top scholastic prize (a $200 scholarship for "citizenship"), he climaxed a series of local golfing honors by beating a Kansas City millionaire in the final of the Trans-Mississippi championship. Then the Omaha Kid became the hero of Omaha. There were banquets and parades and, by popular subscription, a fund of $1,565 was raised to send him to the University of Nebraska. Two years later he won the Nebraska State championship, went on to Pebble Beach and national fame...
...Wedding the strong male figure of the Mississippi and the aloof female Missouri, mounted on swooping fishes, will approach each other in the centre of Aloe Plaza. Behind each lollops a flowing train of antic naiads and tough river gods. To Detroit last week to see the final, full-size models of these Rivers, journeyed St. Louis' seven-man Art Commission...
...hour afternoon broadcast over WPG (Atlantic City). Presenting riddles at five-minute intervals, the station pays $1 to the listener who is first to telephone the correct answer. Innumerable wise contestants were jumping the starting gun by dialing the first four digits of WPG's number, snapping the final digit as soon as they had the solution. Until the wires were cleared by mass attack on the fifth digit, that trick automatically put busy signals on the ten telephones with numbers beginning with the same four digits. Because of the oddities of the dial system, large numbers of calls...