Word: match
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There will be an all- University golf tournament this fall, open to Freshmen and upperclassmen alike. Pairings have been made, and match play will start this week at Belmont...
...have drawn the largest gallery (it included Joe Louis). But he did not play the best golf. "Those cups looked smaller than shrunken thimbles," he moaned, as he posted 160 (83-77) for the opening 36-hole medal round, five strokes too many to qualify him for the match play that determines the champion. Left to uphold the honor of the crooners' guild was Richard D. ("Dick") Chapman, 29-year-old New York and Pinehurst socialite, whose nightclub warbling has been more lark than livelihood. Playboy Chapman turned in the best medal score-140 (71-69), second lowest...
Though Winged Foot is Chapman's home course, few fans gave him much chance to survive six rounds of match play. In the past 35 years, only Bobby Jones had been able to win the championship after the jinx of winning the medal. But deadeye Dick Chapman, who has majored in golf most of his life, was determined to win the U. S. title this year. Three times he had reached the quarter-finals of the British Amateur, two years ago he reached the semi-finals of the U. S. Amateur...
...despite these few standout names '44 appeared as it struggled through the throes of screaming hawkers and the handcramps of a thousand signatures like every other class that has entered Harvard with ten people from a high school on Main Street to match every celebrity...
...clothes. De Mille, when not busy on a picture, wears a trim business suit which he dons in his dressing room on reaching the theatre. When he is busy, he goes in a costume of tan, high-laced field boots, dark riding breeches, pastel green jacket with vest to match and a dark green shirt. He invariably instructs the announcer to apologize to the audience for his workaday appearance, despite the fact that spectators are stunned by the getup...