Word: saturday
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whether it was black cats, walking under ladders, or a shattered mirror that jinxed the Crimson track forces at New Haven Saturday, or whether Jaakko's operatives were just having an off day will never be known. But in the most brilliantly contested Heptagonal meet since its inception five years ago, favored Harvard went down to defeat to Cornell by a slim half point...
Slender Junior Bob Graves provided the finishing touches of Crimson to the sixth annual New England Intercollegiate golf tournament on the Oakley Country Club course late Saturday afternoon by posting a splendid 70-71--141 to spread-eagle a 32-man field and take the individual crown in a walk...
Amherst was second with 309, and Bowdoin was third with 310. Thompson and Barr led the Hoddermen to the Friday triumph with 73 and 74 respectively. The low 32 men on Friday qualified for Saturday's individual play...
Graves was well down in the qualifying lists, with a 78, but he literally took the stiff Oakley course apart Saturday. Captain Jack Barr was his nearest pursuer, and a distant one at that with a 74-76--150. The nine stroke winning margin which Graves had even surpassed the record of present national amateur champion Willie Turnesa, who reigned over the Eastern Intercollegiate golfers for three years...
Turnesa was never able to overshadow his opposition in the same fashion that Graves did Saturday...