Word: scoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tournament ended, Jones and Little were out of the picture, and two seasoned money-playing professionals from Chicago had taken their place. On the first day, in a cold wind that stiffened contestants' fingers, "Light Horse" Harry Cooper posted a 70, the day's only sub-par score. A 69 for his second round left him five strokes ahead of the field. His third round was a creditable 71, but by this time, tall, willowy Horton Smith, who won the first Augusta Masters' Tournament in 1934, was on his heels, only three strokes behind...
...tornado, played under black skies that frightened spectators off the course. Cooper, worried by the strain of waiting, faltered with a 76. He went into the clubhouse to worry for one hour more while Smith was finishing with a brilliant 72 that gave him a four-round score of 285, and hit, second Masters' Championship...
...taken out of the game for fouling. Universals, playing inspired basketball, led by Forward Carl Knowles, built up their lead to 44-to-38, with five minutes left to play. Oilers rallied desperately. They narrowed the gap to four points, then three, then one. The whistle blew, with the score 44-to-43 for Universals...
Their nine-man squad averages 6 ft. 5. Centres Willard Schmidt and Joe Fortenberry are 6 ft. 9 and 6 ft. 8 respectively. When the team travels, they sleep on hotel bedroom floors. They have perfected a technique called "dunking," with which they score by jumping up above the basket, dropping the ball into it. On the defense, they prevent opponents from scoring by batting the ball out of the basket...
...responded with a choral prelude which the Herald & Examiner critic almost took for a Bach-Busoni transcription. Pianist Templeton also showed Mr. Gunn he had not only learned Rachmaninoff's new Paganini Rhapsody from records but also could rattle off his own piano transcription of the complicated orchestra score. Alec Templeton amazed Critic Edward Barry of the Chicago Tribune by making a perfectly good piano sound as if it were horribly out of tune. At a recent Chicago party, Pianist Templeton was asked if he would accompany Violinist Nathan Milstein in Lalo's Symphonic espagnole. The blind pianist...