Word: tournament
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...annual University tennis tournament will get under way this fall when competitors for the singles crowns in classes A and B meet on the courts of Jarvis Field and the Divinity School tomorrow afternoon. The doubles play will open for all students in the University early next week...
This year, in order that the more experienced players may meet sooner, thus speeding up the tournament, players will be judged according to their experience and ability into two classes. All doubles teams will enter one class...
...first day of match-play, five former champions−Von Elm, Marston, Sweetser, Ouimet, and Chick Evans−were put out of the tournament. Voigt, after beating Sweetser, played through the quarter finals to meet Phil Perkins, the British Walker Cup Captain, in the semifinals. Bobby Jones, playing better every day, after going to an extra-hole to eliminate Gorton, the homeclub entrant, beat John Beck...
...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 in five years, smiled for a moment and then he looked strained and tired as he had looked hitting practice drives before the second round in his semifinal...
...Jones on the final green at Brae Burn was thinking of future tournaments in which he must try to achieve the perfection which he can never much more nearly approximate than he does now, he might have envisaged himself as a chubby and more cheerful old fellow, winning the U. S. Senior Golf Championship. One such, Charles H. Walker. 61, last week won this tournament at Rye, N. Y., with a score of 158 for 36 holes...