Word: pitches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kept no score, exchanged few words with his caddy. He was trying to tune himself to a competitive pitch. "Relax?" he says, incredulously. "How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club...
Meanwhile in Riviera this week, Ben Hogan was working methodically at bringing himself up to tournament pitch. He stared out ecstatically at Hogan's Alley, soggy with the heavy rains of the past two weeks, at the pitted greens. "I love the competition," he said. "I hope I'm not at the top of my game; I hope I'm getting better...
...Pitch of A. Both will be badly needed to dispel the fog in Beirut. At its first meeting in Paris two years ago, U.S. Delegation Chairman William Benton had likened the general program of UNESCO to "a pork barrel floating on a cloud." In two years the program had not changed appreciably. By last weekend more than 60 separate resolutions had been dumped into the laps of conference subcommittees. Many, like Austria's pet project for an international conference in Vienna to standardize the A pitch in the musical scale, bore all the earmarks...
Singing was best during the many duets and quartets. Particularly well done was one a cappella quartet in the second act, which at all times was in perfect pitch, with each voice delicately balanced...
Denis Compton is a British cricketer and a friend of Freddie's. But in the atlas of British sports-South African edition, at least-cricket and pugilism are as far removed as Capetown and Lord's, home pitch of London's swank Marylebone Cricket Club. Last week, as Freddie fought his fight in Johannesburg, Denis-in Capetown to play with the M.C.C. team against South Africa's Western Province Cricket Club-invited him to drop in at Newland's Cricket Pavilion...