Word: playoffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lowell team to a 35 to 13 victory against Dunster by taking the 100-yard freestyle in 58 seconds for an inter-House record. Leverett dunked Winthrop, 25 to 23, and Kirkland, 36 to 12, to win the first three cornered meet of the night. In the second place playoff Winthrop beat Kirkland...
...going to get better." A week later, Ben won the Bing Crosby invitation tournament. At Long Beach the week after, he won again. On the 18th green he sank an 11-ft. putt ("It seemed like the longest I ever made") to tie Jimmy Demaret; next day, in the playoff, Hogan won by two strokes. Said he: "I guess I'm making myself unpopular...
This week, after 72 holes of the Phoenix Open, Demaret and Ben Hogan were tied up again. In the 18-hole playoff, things got better for Demaret. He took an early lead, lost it, took it back again with a birdie on the 345-yd. 14th. Then he got his big break (a double one) on the 17th...
...Thanks for the Check." At Buffalo in August, he all but ran Porky Oliver off the course in the Western Open playoff; Hogan had seven birdies and an eagle for a course-record 64. Later when the committee asked him to say a few words, the story goes that Ben seemed reluctant. So a friend got up and said: "I travel with Ben Hogan quite a lot and he has a set speech for these occasions. It goes something like this, 'Thanks for the check...
Football--Trophy won by Kirkland from Eliot in playoff. Kirkland, 142 1/2; Eliot, 142 1/2; Winthrop, 120; Lowell, 110; Dunster, 100; Adams, 90; Leverett, 85; Dudley...