Word: tourna
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dropped, gasps were heard, tongues wagged long and loud. Such prowess in a comparative novice was unheard of. In the final, against seasoned Mrs. Dorothy Campbell Hurd, of Philadelphia, twice before champion (1909-10), Miss Browne "cracked." On a soggy course, she sliced with her brassie, lopped her irons. Tourna ment nerve had pulled her through thus far, but Mrs. Hurd had tourna ment nerve, too,* and a sounder game than the tennis apostate had had time to develop. Mrs. Hurd romped off 7-and-6 with the title. Even so, Miss Browne's glory was inviolate. Edith Cummings...
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