Word: tied
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
Sunday afternoon Smith and Sarazen arose from lunch again refreshed, again smote spheres , again tied with two 72's . They were to try for a third time to break the 108-hole tie, the first in golfing history...
...between M. Caillaux and foreign bankers, among whom there was even mentioned Dr. Schacht of the German Reichsbank In order to embarrass Caillaux, Deputy Tardieu relentlessly interpolated Premier Briand before the Chamber, demanding assurances that the Finance Ministry was not negotiating secretly in such a way as to tie the Chamber's hands before the Cabinet's fiscal program was even submitted for debate...
...paid for by an equalization fee. But to lure the Dixie Senators, one-half of this amount was to be used for cotton marketing, and their equalization fee was to be deferred for three years. This alliance was supposed to be potent enough to bring at least a tie vote. Thereupon, Vice President Dawes would probably cast the deciding vote in favor of the bill. Mr. Coolidge would veto the measure, and embarrassment of the Administration, if nothing else, would ensue...
...that Jones wanted two strokes to be even with Watrous. At the 9th hole in the afternoon he still wanted them. At the 18th hole, the 144th hole of the match, Jones had them, and two more beside. His final score was 291. Watrous had taken 293. And to tie the winning score on the last hole Hagen wanted a 2. He drove and then, with a characteristic gesture, told the boy to take the flag out of the cup. He intended, it appeared, to sink his approach. The ball rushed at the hole, bounced from...