Word: par
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Based on 1940s par of 100.2, the BLS index last week stood at 169.3, up more than two points in the last month. Best guess for next month's index: up one to three points...
...George's links last week, two men slashed through the finals of the British Amateur golf championship. Because of the rain and high winds, neither Britain's Charlie Stowe, a $28 a week mechanic, nor Toledo's playboyish Frank ("Muscles") Stranahan was staying abreast of par. But they stayed even with each other, with 795 on the first round. Then Stowe, completely unstarched, bowed to Stranahan 5-&-4. ¶ | At St. Louis, in the $30,000 Professional Golfers Association championship, cool Ben Hogan systematically went about chopping Mike Turnesa to pieces in the final. Hogan...
...ball went in a ditch, Harmon shed shoes & socks and went into the water to play it. At the 17th (similar to the famous 14th at Scotland's St. Andrews), his drive hit a tree and caromed off into a roadway. But Claude recovered, made one over par on the hole. He got another 70. The early pacemaker, Lloyd Mangrum, had run afoul of Augusta's notorious greens, and dropped behind. Playing those greens was like putting down a marble staircase and trying to stop the ball on the tenth step. They were slick, big (sometimes calling...
Harmon won his first big tournament, and $2,500 in cash, with a nine-under-par 279, five strokes ahead of anyone else...
Even by the extremely low standards of the hotel and club industry, the working conditions provided by the recently expired contract are considerably below par...