Word: tournament
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When golfers from other countries go to play golf in England they know that though the English players may be bad the English weather will be bad too. It Was particularly unpleasant at Hunstanton, England, where the British women's tournament was played last week. Followed by several thousand people a pair of pretty girls began the tournament by driving into a wind that swept in full of rain from the cold North...
Both girls were thinly dressed, showing that they were foreigners. One was Glenna Collett, the other Mlle. Simone Thion de la Chaume who won the tournament last year. They were the two most interesting personalities in the tournament and the people of England wanted to see them play. What was a little rain? It would be good for the greens, the cheery faces of the Britishers seemed to say. Mlle. Thion de la Chaume shivered, hooked her drives into the long tough grass, Miss Collett shivered, took a nine in one hole, but tied the match at the ninth...
...polo tournament between the University, Freshman, and Dedham Club teams for the Bankers Cup, scheduled to take place yesterday afternoon at Dedham, was postponed on account of rain. Weather permitting, the three teams will go into action this afternoon starting at 4 o'clock...
...polo tournament for the Bankers Cup will be held this afternoon at 4 o'clock on the field of the Dedham Polo and Country Club in which the University and Freshman teams will compete, together with the club's own aggregation...
...Jurado, had kept his .obliging manners, his smiles, efficiency, and unconcern. He had led the qualifiers for the British Open Golf Championship. Now, playing his last round, he was doing his best to upset the English notion that no member of a Latin race could stand the strain of tournament golf...