Word: outplayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other sport." He played the Texas amateur circuit, trying to do as well as such crack golfers as Ralph Guldahl (who became U.S. Open champion in 1937 and 1938) and Nelson (U.S. Open champion in 1939). Hogan's rule, then as now: "If you can't outplay them, outwork them." At 19, when his game was good but still as unpredictable as a slippery green, Ben Hogan turned pro. Then he decided to get out of Fort Worth...
...Frank ("The Old Flash") Frisch, 48, onetime second-baseman for the New York Giants, and pepperpot manager of the famous St. Louis Cardinal "Gashouse Gang," a man who outtalked his foes when he couldn't outplay them, the game's most impish umpire-baiter. He stepped out last fall as manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates, now raises flowers at his New Rochelle (N.Y.) home, hopes to broadcast New York Giant games this season...
Harvard's line actually seemed to outplay the visitors, but this was due in large part to the tremendous play of Swede Anderson and Ed Donovan, who form the best pair of backers-up to bolster a Crimson defense in several years...
...most amazing turnabout of an unpredictable season, the Crimson basketball team, trailing 32 to 19 at the half and looking for all the world like a dying dog, returned in an indescribably explosive second half to outscrap, outshoot, and outplay an unbelieving Pennsylvania quintet, winning 57 to 56 at the Indoor Athletic Building last night...
...Harvard team took advantage of the breaks, and when there were none it proceeded to outplay the Lions, man for man. Coach Wes Fesler had given the squad a new offensive system in the Tuesday practice, and its use was one of the deciding factors last night...