Word: championships
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tommy Creavy, 17-year-old assistant professional at Mamaroneck, N. Y., recently a caddy, beat Golfer Johnny Farrell, open champion, in a 19 hole match in the quarter-finals of the Metropolitan Professional Championship. Gene Sarazen won the tournament...
Having played two matches in Europe to determine the unofficial world's professional tennis championship, Vincent Richards and Karel Kozeluh were to play three more in the U. S. But since Kozeluh had won the first two he had only to win the third to clinch the series. This, last week, in Manhattan, by scores of 6-4, 6-4, 3-6, 6-3, Kozeluh did. The match was played on Sunday; as soon as it began, Kozeluh and Richards were served with summonses. After that they went on playing...
...could not get and got practically everything he tried for. His returns were never purely defensive. He coaxed Richards, the best volleyer in the world, to the net so that he could win points passing him. This week, at Forest Hills, will be played the U. S. Professional Championship Tournament. Until amateurs gain enough nerve to enter professional tournaments, the winner of this is only unofficially the open champion...
...Notre Dame coach and journalist, and Coach Pat Page of Indiana, bringing to their rough game a quality hitherto prized only in tea-shops and New England villages, began talking about "football atmosphere" ... In the "Western Conference" so called, Illinois, with 20 lettermen returned, was favored to win another championship...
Captain Sharp, who succeeds Major Wogan as polo coach, is from the 16th Field Artillery of Fort Meyer, Virginia, and is a three goal player in the army. For two years he played through the Pacific Coast championships on the Honolulu team. He has also had experience playing throughout most of the country on army teams. Followers of the sport will remember that Captain J. S. Tate and Lieutenant G. C. Benson, also from Fort Meyer, played on the army team that won the Junior championship two years...