Word: championships
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Another able golf senior is William Dewitt Mitchell, 55, Attorney-General of the U. S. Last fortnight, over his home Somerset course at St. Paul, Minn., Golfer Mitchell shot 77, 84, won the Minnesota senior championship...
...story of tennis tournaments all over the world has been for the last ten years the biography of a narrow, T-square tennis player, William Tatem Tilden II. The story of the national singles championship at Forest Hills last week was the same story with certain variations...
...displeased his gallery that booes were heard for Tilden. John. Van Ryn whacked himself about the knees with his racket but still could not take more than one set. Semi-finally Tilden played left-handed John Doeg of Santa Monica. Cal.. partner of George Lott in the doubles championship (TIME, Sept. 9). Doeg won the first set. Tilden won the second, Doeg won the third. The crisis, which Tilden had often arranged in the past for its histrionic effect, suddenly became an actuality, frightening and consequential. The gallery, which had been applauding Doeg, changed sides and clapped for Tilden...
...desire to win, the latter won. The score of the whole match was 3-6, 6-3, 4-6, 6-2, 6-4 and Tilden's name was written for the seventh time, like Richard D. Sears's and William A. Larned's, upon the championship...
...competitors included the Midwest's seasoned Mrs. Lee Mida and stocky Maureen Orcutt of the East. Conspicuously absent were Glenna Collett, Edith Cummings, Mrs. Dorothy Campbell Hurd, Edith Quier, Mrs. Harry Pressler. The tournament, called variously "The Derby," "The Inaugural" and the Western Women's Medal Play Championship, may be made a national fixture, with hard-hitting Helen Hicks as first defender of a title comparable-although there are no known women professionals-to the na- tional open championship...