Word: championships
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reijiro Wakatsuki towers among men. He is Premier of Japan. He is six feet tall. His achievements as poet, statesman, athlete, financier are staggering (TIME, Apr. 5). At 60 he still holds the jiu-jitsu championship of Japan and twangs a deadly longbow. Last week he went a-fishing...
...sent a perfect drive down the fairway. Mitchell sliced his iron shot. Hagen, standing blandly by, watched him make a hopeless try for recovery, then holed his own putt and turned to oblige the camera men. He had won, at 2 up and 1 to go, the (unofficial) professional championship of the world...
Sunningdale, where the qualifying rounds of the British open championship were played last week, is accounted the hardest inland course in England. There Robert T. Jones went out to qualify last week followed by a number of gentlemen in top hats with racing badges in their lapels, for the King was expected at Ascot that day and these gentlemen wanted, if possible, to be in two places at once. Those of soundest judgment deserted all thought of horse-racing, stayed to watch Jones play two rounds in 134-a stunning 66, a steady 68-36 holes with...
Playing through a serious rainstorm over the windswept Knollwood course at Lake Bluff, near Chicago, the University of Chicago's "Maroon" team slashed drives from wet tees, mashied onto muggy greens, sank putts into brimful cups, to win the Big 10* golf championship last week. Best golf for the day was played by Ralph Kunstadter, University of Illinois, with two rounds...
...referee that she wished her friend to have the point. In one unfortunate game two of Suzanne's drives hit the net cord. Miss Browne won this game. The rest, and the match, Mlle. Lenglen took, 6-1, 6-0?the women's international hard court championship...