Word: nonpareil
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...ability: "If I am on my game, nobody can beat me ... The others are coming uphill to me ... I'm the man to beat." A man in his tennis shoes has to believe that, but he has yet to convince his peers that he is the nonpareil...
...Surrey's Jack Hobbs set the record: 197 centuries. England's W. G. Grace scored 126, and Australia's nonpareil, Don Bradman, made...
...were not for nonpareil Ben Hogan, Snead would be the No. I U.S. golfer. His one weakness, which has twice cost him the Open championship, is putting; he tried 18 different putters in 1948. Even so, he has won 73 tournaments since 1937. Last year, leading the money winners for the third time, Snead banked $35,758.83. His P.G.A. victory last week was his third (the others: 1942 and 1949), a mark equaled only by Gene Sarazen and bettered only by the great Walter Hagen. Snead is glum when he loses. Last week he was grinning from...
...Spare the Horses. Grandiose spectacles, and the sumptuous grandeur of its own size and trappings, have made the $4,600,000 Music Hall a show business nonpareil and a major tourist magnet. Last year, at prices from 80? to $2.40, it drew 16 times as many visitors as the Statue of Liberty. Of its 8,000,000 annual customers, half are out-of-towners...
...crowd-pullers were ex-champions. The biggest gallery followed cocky Frank Stranahan, 26, the muscular millionaire Ohio playboy who won the British Amateur championship this year. And Spectator Bobby Jones, the onetime nonpareil (he won the U.S. Amateur title five times), had put his money on a neglected entry. Jones thought that this looked like the year for Ray Billows, 34, a Poughkeepsie salesman who had reached the finals twice before-and lost both times...