Word: championship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This was the National Amateur Golf Championship, which was being played in the Pacific Northwest (at Portland's Alderwood Country Club) for the first time in history. In a downpour which soaked the players the first day. Oldtimer Francis Ouimet, who won the Amateur in 1914 and again in 1931, found his ball as unmanageable as an eel, dropped out with an 85 But another oldtimer. Charles ("Chick") Evans, who held the title in 1916 and 1920, ran off a neat 74 on the mushy course in the first round of his 28th national championship. It was Evans...
...none of this year's British players was married and they would therefore, presumably, have no worries about absent husbands. True, two of the U. S. tennists- Alice Marble and Carolin Babcock-had sore backs and Helen Jacobs, in the year since she lost the U. S. singles championship to Alice Marble, had dislocated her thumb, torn a shoulder ligament and banged her knee with a racket. But pretty Kay Stammers was not feeling in top form either and she was the mainstay of the British (Wimbledon Champion Dorothy Round stayed at home). In the first...
...decorous game which appeals chiefly to oldsters, who find its 3½ lb. bowl (ball) easier to handle than the 16-lb. indoor ball. Last week 160 of its foremost enthusiasts assembled in Chicago's Jackson Park ior the high point of the U. S. season, the annual championship meet of the 22-year-old American Lawn Bowling Association...
...hours, the crowd, somewhat thinned by the inescapable monotony of the spectacle provided by small boys coasting down a hill, saw the final heat. Robert Ballard, 12, of White Plains, N. Y., got the checkered flag as he rolled across the finish line first to win the U. S. championship, a silver trophy, a diamond-set gold medal and a four-year scholarship to any State university he might select. He promptly announced that he would go to the University of Minnesota. Runner-up Kenneth Richardson, 12, of Detroit and John Sigmans, 12, of Bethlehem, Pa., who came in third...
...Pigeon-toed Strongwoman Jadwiga Jedrzejowska, Poland's No. 1 woman tennist: the singles championship of the Maidstone Invitation Tournament, second major preliminary to next month's national championships, in her second week of competition on U. S. courts; defeating Sarah Palfrey Fabyan, U. S. No. 3, in the final, 6-2, 6-3; at East Hampton...