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Word: strafaci (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1937-1937
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...match was delayed when a careless caddy taking a practice swing struck Mrs. Evansin the mouth with his club felled her loosened several teeth. After the start, Evans found his iron shots undependable and he was so tired from winning his morning match, against onetime Public Links Champion Frank Strafaci. that his timing went bad. Nevertheless, he was not beaten until the final green, where he looked up prematurely on a short approach shot then missed a 5-ft. putt. Next day in the semi-finals Champion Fischer's woods were crooked, his irons ragged his putter helpless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Last, Goodman | 9/6/1937 | See Source »

...trap which, in innumerable unimportant rounds, he had invariably avoided. Bert McDowell, an able amateur from Baton Rouge, knocked three balls into the lake on the 16th hole, took three putts for an n, posted a 91, high score for the first day. Young Frank Strafaci of Brooklyn, 1935 Public Links champion, hit the flag on the third and missed a hole-in-one by a hair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Answer at Oakland Hills | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

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