Word: playoffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such Tam O' Shanter shenanigans as wearing numbers on their backs, but since there was money in it, Locke was willing. After 72 holes, he was twelve strokes under par and in a first-place tie with Ed ("Porky") Oliver. He went on to beat Oliver in a playoff, and to become the third biggest money winner on this year's pro golf circuit.* His explanation: "It's just relaxed control...
...Louis Country Club, Sammy Snead trudged onto the final green. Carefully, he plucked a leaf from the sod, squatted to survey the roll of the green. It was the U.S. Open Championship again, and he had to sink an 18-foot putt to get into the playoff match. Sammy stroked the ball, and a gallery of 3,000 stood in awed silence as it rolled up to the cup, plunked in. Then the gallery roared. Sammy puckered his lips and grinned. This time things were going to be different...
...Putt. Sammy and Lew fought out their tie at medal play this week. They went into the last hole even. Both had good drives of about 260 yards. Both pitched up to within 25 feet of the pin, though Worsham was still off the green. It looked like another playoff unless either sank a long one. Worsham shot first; his ball hit the right edge of the cup and bounced out. Snead's putt was short. Officials got out a tape measure: Snead's ball was 30½ inches away; Worsham's was 29½ inches. Without...
Finalists in the annual College Sculling Regatta will ruffle up the Charles this afternoon, as leaders in each of the six oars divisions race for the silver medals and Dorsey Memorial Cup waiting at the finish line. The four singles winners will enter a playoff tomorrow to decide the lop-ranking undergraduate sculler...
...Sectional playoff for Eastern Inter-collegiate championships...