Word: winners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...watched all night from the shore. At 1:52 a.m., amid shouting and honking of horns, the first sail loomed into the searchlight beam that marked the finish line. It was William L. Stewart Jr.'s big yawl Chubasco. But Chubasco, though first to finish, was not the winner. Yachting handicaps are logarithmically calculated by a complicated formula involving length, sail area, etc.; and Chubasco had a small handicap. More than ten hours later, Morgan's Dolphin II sailed past Diamond Head, the winner. Corrected time (after subtracting more than two days' handicap): 11 days...
...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...
Eleven more, however, including Catherine Metcalf, winner of the one $418 scholarship, have earned a niche in next week's offering, "The State of the Union...
...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...
...Golden Man finished in front by half a length, George dashed for the winner's circle to kiss his horse and rider. In due time, another announcer took over the microphone...