Word: championship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tulsa, last week, the National Skeet Shooting Association held its fourth annual championship tournament. As usual, the headliners were not much older than the sport itself. Of the seven amateur champions determined during the week, only one was over 21. Youngest was Augusta's 12-year-old Clayton P. ("Red") Boardman Jr., freckles champion of Georgia, who. hobbling around on crutches (because of a foot infection that hospitalized him for six months), broke 95 out of 100 targets to retain the sub-junior title he won last year...
Only double champion was Jack Lindsey, 21, of Okmulgee. Okla., who won the sub-small-gauge title with a record-breaking 98 out of 100, and then took the small-gauge championship in a shootoff after tying two of the sport's most seasoned gunners at 99 out of 100. The new No.1 lady skeeter of the U. S. is a 17-year-old Akron schoolgirl. Patricia Laursen. who has been shooting only two years but was good enough last week to break 96 out of 100. the best record any woman has registered at the national meet...
...effort, he got results that would please many a top-flight white golfer: rounds of 68, 73, 72, 71- on a tough, hilly course he had never seen before. His 284 not only won the tournament and first prize of $200 but set a new record for the Negro championship-just three strokes higher than the all-time...
Temporarily putting up his racket (which provides him an income of some $60,000 a year), No. 1 Professional Tennist- Ellsworth Vines turned amateur, qualified for the National Amateur Golf championship to be held next week at Oakmont, Pa. His score: 150 for 36 holes...
Last week Helen Wills Moody did an unusual thing. Finding that she was unable, because of neuritis, to take part in the U. S. championship next week, Mrs. Moody sent the U. S. L. T. A. a check for $1,309.45, a refund in toto for her expenses abroad-apparently as indemnity for its loss of her as a box-office attraction at Forest Hills. Bewildered by such a Simon-pure amateur spirit, the U. S. L. T. A. decided to take it up as new business at their next meeting...