Word: championship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week 88 of the best teams in the U. S.-survivors of nationwide tournaments sponsored by the Amateur Softball Association-met in Chicago for the sixth annual national championships. After a week of eliminations, played simultaneously in five different parks, the men's championship went to the Pohlar's Cafe team of Cincinnati (owned by the proprietors of a German beer garden), whose pitcher, Clyde Kirkendall, had pitched 127 consecutive scoreless innings (a record) earlier in the season. Women's championship, won by Cleveland's Num Num Girls for the past two years, went...
...Amateur golf championship, played last week at Oakmont, outside Pittsburgh, most persistent arguments centred around: 1) Defending Champion Johnny Goodman and whether he could win the Amateur for the second year in a row; 2) Atlanta's Charley Yates and whether he could add the U. S. title to the British Amateur title he won last spring; 3) Professional Tennist Ellsworth Vines, onetime U. S. amateur tennis champion, and whether he could reach the final - and thereby duplicate the feat of Mary K. Browne, tennis champion in 1912-13-14, who reached the final of the U. S. women...
...favorite Charley Yates and four of his Walker Cup teammates were swept out of the tournament by dark horses, Spectator Vines was still hanging around. For Pat Abbott was the dark horse who had eliminated Walker Cupper Ray Billows, runner-up to Johnny Goodman in last year's championship...
...prelude to next summer's triennial matches with England for the Westchester Cup, polo's No. 1 trophy, the U. S. Open polo championship, played at Long Island's Meadow Brook Club last week, took on added importance. Facing one another in the final were two of the best teams this generation of polo enthusiasts has ever seen. One was Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney's Old Westbury four, last year's winner. The other was Greentree, last year's runner-up, backed by his cousin, John Hay ("Jock") Whitney. Old Westbury...
Amateur Tennis and Golf Finals (Sat. 12 noon, 2 p.m., CBS). Men's and women's national tennis championships reported by Sportscaster Ted Husing from Forest Hills; U. S. amateur golf championship by Sportscaster Harry Nash from Oakmont Country Club near Pittsburgh...