Word: pars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Holy Cross took an under-par three minutes to open the scoring. The Crusaders received the opening kickoff, then moved upfield from their own 26 to score in eight plays. Unable to match the Purple's speed, and completely baffied by Charlie Maloy's ball-handling, the Crimson line offered no resistance...
When the athletes move indoors for winter competition, however, Harvard annually finds itself on a healthy par with its opponents. The notable exception, of course, has been the futile attempts of Coach Norman Shepard's uncommercial basketball team to finish ahead of anyone except, surprisingly enough. Dartmouth. The Crimson's basketball fortunes are as low, at least as those of football, and have been so for some time: last year's record was eight wins against IS losses...
...submariners held a conference and settled the matter themselves. It was announced they would prefer to be called submarEENers (accent on the third syllable), and this pronunciation has been officially adopted. They objected to the pronunciation subMARiner on the grounds that it might connote a mariner who is below par...
...Hogan, with a blazing final 6-under-par round of 66 for a 72-hole total of 273, the $12,500 top money (golf's biggest prize) in the Tarn O'Shanter Country Club's $50,000 tournament; at Chicago. Tied for eighth place: Lloyd Mangrum, who played his home course under police guard after a threatening telephone call (TIME...
Were gamblers really trying to fix big-time golf as they had fixed big-time basketball? Next day, with a mild case of jitters, Mangrum played under an armed police escort, but blasted a 2-under-par 70 to take $2,250 first prize money (and to become the year's top money winner with $18,948.83). Later, he told newsmen it was not quite a new experience: two years ago, a man he knew (since "sent up the river for dope peddling or something") offered him a share "in cutting up $7,000" if he would finish...