Word: outplaying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professional Golfer Gene Sarazen, one-time British and twice U. S. Open Champion, recently said: "Any man is crazy to take up golf as a profession. . . ." Professional golfers receive no salary for their competitive performances, are rewarded only when they outplay 100 to 500 opponents and finish in the money. When a professional wins the National Open championship, No. 1 U. S. golf event, he receives only $1,000 cash-about the same amount a second-rate prize fighter gets as a preliminary attraction to a world-cham-pionship fight-plus advertising which has no fixed cash value...
...succeeded Lowell as league golf champion in the last stages of competition, was trimmed by Berkley 6 1/2 to 2 1/2. Flaherty and Severs, playing in the first foursome, split with Knowles and Creekmore of Yale, 1 1/2 to 1 1/2. But the second foursome saw Potts and Berger outplay Mellman and Lowe of Adams, the Gold coasters picking up only half a point when Lowe split his match point with Potts...
...other House game played Winthrop House took a 7-0 decision from Dunster. Although they fumbled on the opening kickoff, the Puritans trned back Dunster's early bid and came back strong to outplay the Deacons throughout the rest of the game. The lone touchdown was rung up in the second half of the contest after a steady march...
...diplomats. It had been 13 years since he left his native Bridgeport, Conn, as a Cornell engineering graduate. In that time he had learned to stay sober while gulping vast quantities of vodka, stay suave while sipping small quantities of tea, tell jokes in Russian and 15 Chinese dialects, outplay Chinese generals at poker and politics, pen dispatches which his State Department superiors found masterpieces of industry and insight...
...punt, a pass and a prayer'' is the formula by which Michigan has remained at the top of the Western ("Big Ten") Conference for the past three years. Last week, before a Big Ten record crowd of 95,000, Michigan out-punted, outpassed, needed no prayer to outplay Ohio State with simple maneuvers...