Word: championships
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...during almost every other major English sporting event this season, it rained last week during the British Amateur Golf Championship in Sandwich. The weather made antic the play of visiting golfers from the U. S., Canada, France, South Africa, India, Australia, New Zealand, Mesopotamia, the Malay States. Edward of Wales watched for a while, then amused himself 'by practicing some drives of his own, employing the methods taught him last month by British Open Champion Walter Hagen. Said he: "At last I have learned to play golf," but he did not enter the tournament...
...carpenter*. No brilliance attends his game but only the grimmest determination. His idiosyncrasies: chalking the face of his wooden clubs with blue chalk, waxing the handle of his irons before the difficult shot. To Cyril Tolley who won it at Muirfield nine years ago again went the championship. He, a links behemoth, has obtained most fame from his prodigious drives. In 1923 at Troon he drove to the green on a 350-yard hole. Last week his drives were still spectacular and, rare for him, he putted and approached with steady skill...
...winter season was not on the whole as successful in point of major victories as might have been hoped. It was however far form devoid of achievement in Harvard sport. The University polo trio, coming undefeated through a nine game schedule, winning the Class A league championship of Boston and the intercollegiate title for the first time, was a heraled of a new era for polo at the University. The aggregate of winter contests. including Freshman and second7CROSS COUNTRY LEADER WHO WON IN INTERCOLLEGIATES J. L. REID...
...Other reported golf incidents: in Warren, Ohio, Dr. E. D. Hoover holed in one on the third (195 yd.), his co-golfer George Jones followed him to the tee, holed in one, too; in Los Angeles, Francis Stevens Jr., defeated his father in the semi-finals of the State championship, thereby winning from father a seat in the Stock Exchange and permission to marry. Golfer Stevens Jr. did not, however, win the State championship...
...next season. In the CRIMSON dated June the 8th it stated I had been a teacher at Harvard for 8 years, which is a mistake; my first agreement was made Oct. 1st, 1919, which would make it 10 years; I had the honor with my pupils to win the championship three times; the first in 1922, the second 1923, the third 1924. Harvard College never had the opportunity of winning any championships for 26 years...