Word: tournament
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mixed pair contract bridge tournament between Harvard and Radcliffe students will be held at the Hotel Commander on Thursday, October 11, at 8.30 o'clock. The entry fee will be $1.00 and the prizes four reserved seat tickets to the Harvard-Brown football game...
Coach Harry L. Cowles has requested that opponents arrange their matches at once, as they are to be played off at the rate of one a day until the completion of the tournament. The draws are posted in Cowles shop. The doubles pairing will be drawn up later this week...
Entries for the annual University Tennis Tournament will close September 28 according to an announcement by Coach Harry Cowles. All members of the University are eligible to enter either the Singles A or Singles B or Doubles contests. The A tournament is generally selected by members of the squad and other advanced players while the B contests are chosen by players of less skill. The choice, however, remains with the entrant...
...Most spectacular players in the field were two young Texas clerks, Reynolds Smith and David Goldman. They went to the tournament together when an airline offered them free transportation in case of vacancies. They rented a $7-a-week room. Smith, who had lost his suitcase in Cleveland, borrowed a pair of baggy trousers. On the fifth day of the tournament there were four golfers left out of the 184. Two of them were Goldman and Smith. As they had often done in Texas, where Smith usually wins, they played each other. Goldman...
...match that took most of an afternoon and part of the next. Then he polished off the No. 1 Davis Cup singles player, towheaded Sidney Wood, 6-3, 6-2, 6-3. By that time, the other two members of the Davis Cup team were already out of the tournament. Allison's only available means of increasing the chagrin of the Davis Cup committee was to win the title by beating Frederick John Perry of England (TIME, Sept. 3) in the final...