Word: tourneys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Most were playing in Chicago's raucous, $36,390 Tam O'Shanter tourney, which carries no prestige but is worth $7,000 to the winner, against $600 first-prize money in the British Open. Snead, who tied for 16th at Tam O'Shanter, said that the trip to England to win the British crown last year left him $400 in the hole...
...Open Golf Championship (Sat. 6 p.m., ABC). Final round of the 1947 tourney, from St. Louis
Even before the end of the football season, newly-appointed basketball coach Bill Barelay was busy experimenting with the team whose predecessor had represented New England in the NCAA hoop tourney. Barelay introduced a modified western style of ball, stressed teamplay, and produced a quintet that managed to win more games than it lost...
...Stewart Alexander, 27, strode into Philadelphia's Cedarbrook Country Club locker room wearing an ear-to-ear grin. His score-a five-under-par 66-broke the three-year-old course record in the first round of last week's $15,000 Inquirer Invitation Tourney. Fellow golfers shook his hand and slapped his back. Just when he was beginning to enjoy prosperity, the crash came. Veteran Ben Hogan, finishing three hours later over the damp fairways, entered the locker room triumphantly. He had just scored six under par, shooting six birdies and a big wide hole in Alexander...
...pros, who vary from businesslike to grim, Locke whistled while he walked. He had time for such small amenities as replacing divots, and applauding when an opponent sank a long putt. When his own steady putter went haywire last week on the 17th green of the $15,000 tourney at Fort Worth, he grinned and scolded himself: "Very shaky, very shaky playing indeed...