Word: round
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...singles tournament begins tomorrow, and the first round must be played by Monday night. Courts have been reserved Monday and Friday for contestants. As many as possible of the class A competitors are requested to play on the Divinity School courts, while those who are unable to get courts there should use the Jarvis courts with the class B players. Manager J. O. Ross '29 urges everyone to play off their matches as quickly as possible while the good weather lasts...
...Beaconsfield Club in Montreal last week Virginia Wilson of Chicago, defeated Peggy Wattles of Buffalo, 5 up and 4 to play for the Canadian women's golf championship. Dora Virtue, of Montreal, was triumphant over Edith Quier, of Reading. Pa., in the second round. The Quier-Virtue score was 2 up, i to play...
...semi-finals Jones finished his morning round 9 up; after lunch, while Voigt and Perkins started out, he stood on the practice tee driving ball after ball through exactly the same trajectory far down the fairway to where two caddies waited to pick them up. After every perfect drive, Jones' face grew darker. Then he went out on the course and played six more holes with Phil Finlay, a shaky, hard-hitting Harvard boy; by this time he had won his match, 13 up and 12 to play...
Voigt and Perkins were fighting it out a little harder. The gallery was rooting for the quiet lanky Lancashireman, who never spoke except to his caddie whom he called "laddie." They saw Voigt go one down in the morning round; in the afternoon, Voigt lost the sixth hole when his ball landed in a brook at the foot of the green. He kept on losing holes after that and the match was over on the 14th after they both played in from the rough around the green to halve the hole. Perkins, for the first time since he had started...
...When Jones and Perkins went out to play their match, Perkins took an iron out, Jones took a wooden club−and a six for the hole to Perkins' four. Perkins was one up until the fourth; then Jones evened the match. At the end of the morning round, Jones was 6 up; at the end of the match, on the ninth green that afternoon, he was 10 up. Perkins threw away his cigaret again and walked over to shake hands, saying in his high, polite voice, "Well played, Mr. Jones." Bobby Jones, winning his fourth national amateur tournament...