Word: playoff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to a statement made last night by Bingham, it has been decided that no such game can be arranged this year, but that in future years, an opening will be kept in the Harvard schedule to provide for a playoff with the Tiger, in the event that that would be necessary...
...Caras of Wilmington, Del. Playing for the world's championship for the first time in his career, he became 22 on the day that he won one of the six matches that put him in a tie for second place with Erwin Rudolph and Andrew Ponzi. In the playoff, Caras beat Rudolph by 125-to-8. Later the same day he disposed of Ponzi, 12540-94, in a match which ended with Caras' dangerous cut-shot for the right-hand upper corner pocket-when, if he had been a little less sure of himself, he might have broken...
...Brookline, Mass, is the country club where, in 1913, when he was 20, Francis Ouimet tied famed Harry Vardon and Ted Ray in his first U. S. Open championship, then beat them both in a momentous playoff. Francis Ouimet does a lot of his golfing at the Brookline club but it was for another momentous match against British golfers that he was there again last week. As U. S. Amateur Champion he had been made captain of the U. S. Walker Cup Team...
...sectional qualifying round for one of the 14 places in the New York District. His putting was wobbly, his irons erratic. His 152, eight over par for two rounds, left him tied with six other professionals for the last two places in the 14. In a "sudden death" playoff, John Golden and two Turnesa brothers won the last three places with birdie threes on the first hole. Sarazen's birdie three on the third hole came too late to put him in the list of qualifiers unless one of them, possibly Charley Lacey, his assistant at Lakeville Country Club...
...Elephants piled up a total of 11 points out of a possible 12. Winthrop followed with six victories, while Adams trailed the field with only one point. Preceding the playoff, each house had played the other houses one time, with Winthrop defeating Eliot, Eliot defeating Adams, and Adams defeating Winthrop, to cause the triple tie. However, a revamped Elephant lineup proved effective yesterday in defeating its rivals to gain the first house championship title...