Word: tournament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Inter-House Athletic Council reversed itself last week and decided to hold a golf competition after all. So yesterday Cambridge's Fresh Pond Gold Course was invaded by four-man teams from all the Houses. They are playing an elimination tournament to determine the House links crown...
Write a Letter. During the previous weekend, thousands of visitors had been welcomed at the club to watch the famed Masters' Tournament (TIME, April 19). Now, as Ike and George vanished behind the club's waist-high thorn hedge, every visitor was politely turned back at the entrance by a uniformed Pinkerton guard. Anyone who asked to communicate with Ike was told to write him a letter...
...addition to setting a new new course record of 62 at the Vernon Hills, New York links, last year, Rick has also knocked off number one honors in the Westchester Amateur Tournament for the past two years. And on his home course at Briarcliff-on-the-Hudson, Rick last Summer beat a slightly rusty "Jug" McSpaden by a 67 to 70 score...
...amateur, he says, can afford to be hot one day and cool the next, but a pro has to keep burning up the fairway day after day in order to maintain the grueling pace of tournament golf...
Harmon won his first big tournament, and $2,500 in cash, with a nine-under-par 279, five strokes ahead of anyone else...