Word: medals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past, the national amateur golf championship, a match-play tournament, has opened with 36 holes of qualifying medal play among contestants selected by the executive committee of the U. S. Golf Association. This arrangement had two disadvantages: 1) The committee was accused of favoritism. 2) The elimination of able players in the qualifying medal rounds sometimes robbed the ensuing match play of excitement. Three years ago the U. S. G. A. removed the first objection by inaugurating sectional qualifying rounds from which 160 players became eligible for the big tournament. However, since only 20% of the field ever reached match...
...Disordered Universe." An outstanding player in astronomy's game of juggling and revising figures is tousle-haired Director Harlow Shapley of Harvard Observatory. To him last week the American Academy of Arts & Sciences presented its Rumford Medal for research in physics. Dr. Shapley responded with a talk on "The Anatomy of a Disordered Universe...
Every year the Amateur Athletic Union awards the Sullivan Medal to the U. S. athlete "who . . . has done most during the year to advance the cause of sportsmanship." Last week the A. A. U. announced its 1933 medalist. He is Kansas University's crack middle-distance runner, Glenn Cunningham, who at the age of 8 was so badly burned in a schoolhouse fire that he was never expected to walk again. To develop his scarred legs he took up running, even learned to play football. But because he developed into such an expert trackman coaches forbade him to play...
Closer than many of Glenn Cunningham's races was the balloting which gave him the medal. He received 611 votes. Only one vote behind him was another crack middle-distance runner, Princeton's Bill Bonthron. Like Cunningham, he is most famed as a miler, but they never raced together. Bonthron amazed the sport world in the Princeton-Cornell v. Oxford-Cambridge meet last July when he ran close second to Oxford's Jack Love lock in a record-breaking mile, then stepped out and won the half-mile...
Born. To Walter ("Walt") Disney, 32, cinemanimator (Mickey Mouse, Three Little Pigs), and Lillian Bounds Disney: a daughter; in Hollywood, while Animator Disney was being awarded a medal for distinguished service to childhood by President Rufus von Kleinsmid of the University of Southern California. Weight: 8 Ib. 2 oz. Name: Dianne Marie...