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Harvard's University golf team was defeated 5 to 4 by a group of pros yesterday in an informal match at the Belmont Spring Country Club, while the Seconds won 6 to 0, from M. I. T. Today the University golfers will meet Brown at 2.15 o'clock at the Belmont Spring Country Club for their eighth game of the season...
...University golf team will play a group of pros at the Belmont Spring Country Club today at 2.15 o'clock...
William Tatem Tilden II had not played Vincent Richards for five years because Richards was a professional and the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association would not countenance official matches between pros and amateurs. But after Tilden turned pro himself (TIME, Jan. 12) a match between them loomed. Shrewdly Promoter Jack Curley, tsar of U. S. professional tennis, built up for this match a lusty Irish ballyhoo startling in tennis* although routine in Mr. Curley's boxing and wrestling enterprises. He had the rivals issue derisive statements about each other which neither would under any circumstances have uttered. Curley further...
...history of those traditions, about which our less enlightened fathers would become pleasurably reminiscent it they were not afraid of the laughter of the kindergarden, is brought to mind by the premonition that Yale's "Tap Day" yesterday is perhaps its last. All pros and cons of its observance aside, it seems unfortunate that college traditions of that type should be taken so seriously as to require abolishment. The presence of such social amenities would form a pleasant part of college life if sophistication were not swallowed so naively. When the collegian grows cynical about his cynicism, more distrustful...
...faced iron. But many a player has so continued, waiting for tournament golfers, who had to use the new ball, to give some indication of whether it really took distance off shots, was harder to control. Last week the Professional Golfers Association published a tabulation of what 16 famed pros have done with the larger, lighter ball. The discovery: scores are as low as ever. Whatever distance is lost in the roll or spent in the wind is made up for by the way the new ball sits up to be hit, and by its less deviating roll...