Word: championships
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Richards-Tilden. Mrs. Vincent Richards was in a pet. It was her birthday and it seemed to her that, even if he was up against long Will Tilden in the final of the Metropolitan grass court championship, her blond, child-faced young husband might have remembered to get her some keepsake. On the way out to the Crescent Athletic Club courts in Brooklyn, she told him as much, calmly but with frigid point...
...even fury, dancing securely on his spikes. Tilden, leaping and slipping like a tipsy stork, had withstood him scarely at all. Some people were saying that the theatre* had "gotten" long Will Tilden. Others said: "Nonsense, he will take care of himself when the Davis Cup matches and national championship come along." Some said he was clowning too much, his tournament intensity dissipated by other interests. Others said: "Never think it. Will Tilden is a man of 43; his follies are over, even if he does eat flapjacks at Hollywood now and then. Tennis is his game, his life...
Thus, scowling, ruminated a grizzled golf professional on hearing of the scores made on various courses last week. Eastern Open. At Wolf Hollow Golf Links (Delaware Water Gap, Pa.) Walter Hagen won the Eastern Open Championship. The course, a 6,500-yard layout, was an exceptionally difficult one, with long carries, tough sea-grass in the roughs, greens intricately trapped. Two rounds of 72 would probably, the greensmen thought, be good enough to win; such stars as Joseph Turnesa, Emmet French, Cyril Walker struggled to get less than 80; John Farrell, with a 69, declared that he had played...
Metropolitan Open. When an ir- resistible force meets an immovable body in a golf tournament, the judges are obliged to arrange a playoff. They arranged a playoff for MacDonald Smith and Gene Sarazen, tied at 286 strokes of the 72 holes of medal play in the Metropolitan Open Championship, last fortnight on Long Island (TIME, July 26). Irresistible Smith and Immovable Sarazen proceeded to take 70 more strokes apiece. They were told to tee off again. Irresistible Smith took 72 strokes more; Immovable Sarazen took 72 strokes more. It was a 108-hole tie, a championship record...
...foot putt. On the 18th green Johnston's putter again faltered. He missed a six-footer and enabled Dolp to square the match. Johnston repeated with a two-foot miss on the extra hole, was eliminated. Dolp then sailed on easily to his first Western Amateur Championship-Chuck Hunter defaulted to him; collegian Kenneth Hisert ("Big Ten" winner) was swamped; B. E. Stein of Seattle capitulated on the 31st hole of the finals. The headliners were ignored: Keefe Carter (last year's champion) was eliminated in the second round: Chick Evans (seeking his ninth Western title) fell before...