Word: playoff
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...another title. To his U. S. Open and British Open titles, he had added that of his native Dixieland. Professionals Johnny Farrell, Quaker Ridge, N. Y., and John Golden, Patterson, N. J., were tied for second place, eight strokes behind the winder's 281. In an especially arranged playoff two days later, Golden defeated Fanell 70-71, took the first cash award...
Metropolitan Open. When an ir- resistible force meets an immovable body in a golf tournament, the judges are obliged to arrange a playoff. They arranged a playoff for MacDonald Smith and Gene Sarazen, tied at 286 strokes of the 72 holes of medal play in the Metropolitan Open Championship, last fortnight on Long Island (TIME, July 26). Irresistible Smith and Immovable Sarazen proceeded to take 70 more strokes apiece. They were told to tee off again. Irresistible Smith took 72 strokes more; Immovable Sarazen took 72 strokes more. It was a 108-hole tie, a championship record...
...baseball nine leading the American or National League early in July is the team which wins the pennant.* The baseball season is then half over and (if the wiseacres' maxim be infallible) New York in the American and Cincinnati in the National will be the contenders in the playoff World Series this fall...
Neither the Yale nor the Harvard Freshmen have epee teams, but it is likely that the University epee team will meet the M. I. T. men in a playoff of a tie which resulted in last Saturday's fencing meet...
...playoff is scheduled for 11 o'clock this morning. It will consist of 18 holes, with an additional 18 in the afternoon if Jones and McFarlane still clinch on the ninetieth green...