Word: runners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This year at Memphis, again medalist in the women's national tournament. Mrs. Page refused to be flustered, stayed calm even through such matches as one in which her opponent after a lusty swing lost her skirt. So last week Mrs. Page met 19-year-old Patty Berg, runner-up to Mrs. Glenna Collett Vare in the national tournament two years ago, in the final...
After the morning round it was apparent that Patty Berg, favorite with sportswriters because of her snub nose, would be only runner-up again. Playing in a faded blue jersey and battered felt hat with tees stuck in the hatband. Mrs. Page was 3 up at the end of 18 holes. Imperturbable, one-putting on green after green. Mrs. Page was 7 up at the end of 27 holes, ended the match three holes later. "It was just my day, I guess," she said...
Solemn young Byron Nelson of Reading, Pa.: the $12,000 Belmont Open, world's richest tournament for professional golfers; defeating his neighbor, Henry Picard of Hershey, Pa. in the final, 5 & 4; in a driving rainstorm; at Belmont. Mass. Runner-up Picard's $2,000 share of the purse upped his season's winnings to $9,916, second to top money-winner Harry Cooper of Chicago who has accumulated $12,973. Nelson's winning share, $3,000, put him in fifth place...
Jaakko emphasizes the shortness of the cross country season. Lasting but a month the competition begins this Friday with the Handicap Meet, and ends November 5 when the last runner (A Blue) crosses the finish line in the Harvard. Yale-Princeton triangle meet. The Schedule for the harriers is as follows...
...that offense he will be aided by Frank Foley, who showed that he was a good runner in his own right and that he will fill Stuart's place satisfactorily if not spectacularly, by Chief Boston who was blocking Springfield Maroons all over the field and by a couple of good running guards, identity not yet clearly revealed...