Word: championship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...game while his opponent ran out 14 points in a row for match & title. Prettiest girl player in the tournament, slim, brunette Mrs. Del Barkhuff of Seattle, was also the most proficient. Using a skyrocket serve that sometimes nearly hit the roof, she won the women's singles championship, 11-4, ni, against Mrs. Ray Bergman, then paired with Hamilton Law and with Zoe Smith to share both doubles titles. Men's doubles winners were Chester Goss & Don Eversoll of Los Angeles...
What Walter Kramer got for winning the men's badminton championship last week was a silver cup, named for New York socialites Bayard Clarke and E. Langdon Wilks who were the original U. S. badminton pioneers in 1878. Unlike England's "Grand Old Man" of badminton, Sir George Thomas, whose achievement of winning 78 national badminton titles in the British Isles from 1903 to 1928 is rivaled only by his position as England's best chess player, they did not contribute much to the game's later triumph. Badminton's current status...
Once launched by Hollywood, badminton broke out all over the U. S. in patches. From Canada, which currently has about 25 of the world's best 30 singles players, including Professional Jack Purcell who two years ago beat Hollywood's Willard for the "world's championship," the game spread quickly to Detroit, Chicago, Seattle. Badminton literature began when Squash-Badminton appeared in 1934, grew when American Lawn Tennis added a badminton section last autumn, came of age last week when the national championships made badminton in daily papers jump from the society to the sports pages. Average...
...happen. The news can disrupt his game completely or it can make him play superlatively well. This was the alternative which, last week at Augusta, Ga., faced 25-year-old Byron Nelson, whose most noteworthy previous achievement as a golf professional was winning New York's Metropolitan Open Championship last summer...
...York Rangers, professional hockey team: their two-out-of-three game series against the favored Montreal Maroons, for the right to play the Detroit Red Wings for the Stanley Cup and hockey's world championship; 1-to-0 and 4-to-0; at New York, then Montreal...