Word: championships
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Shinnecock Hills, L. I., Stewart Sheftal, 17, learned his golf. He has since been an expatriate, living in Paris. Last week he crossed the English Channel, went to Formby, England, defeated Archibald Dobbie, Scotch lad, for the British boys' open championship, 6 and 5. His was the eighth victorious U. S. invasion of notable British golf tournaments...
Flip! The first service was spun. Into action sprang Helen Wills and Mrs. J. Saunders Taylor in the 41st annual women's championship tournament at Forest Hills, L. I. Twenty-two minutes later they shook hands, Miss Wills a 6-0, 6-1 victor over Mrs. Taylor...
William Tatem Tilden II can beat Fritz Mercur, onetime Longwood Bowl champion. So, too, can Helen Wills, as she did in an exhibition match last week. Yet Mercur rose to no great heights last week in the Eastern Turf championship at the Westchester-Biltmore Country Club to trounce Tilden in straight sets, 6-4, 6-3. Less alarming, but important, significant, was the straight-set victory (6-4, 7-5) of Berkeley Bell, of the University of Texas, over Francis T. Hunter, perennial doubles partner and intimate of Tilden...
...best public linksters met on the Cobbs Creek course, Philadelphia. Police Lieut. Samuel Graham, muscular Pittsburgher, won the qualifying medal and was put out in the second round by a left-handed carpenter from Washington. But Carl F. Kauffmann, 32, dour-faced clerk, also of Pittsburgh, retained the championship which he won last year by defeating Philip Ogden of Cleveland in the finals...
Married. Tom Heeney; 29, recent unsuccessful contender for the heavyweight championship of the world (TIME, Aug. 6); and Mrs. Marion Dunn Hyde, 30, model and saleswoman of Port Washington, L. I.; in Lodentown...