Word: tournament
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year-old oil producer whose hobbies are trapshooting and golf. His golf cards average go, his trapshooting scores, 83 out of 100. More enthusiastic than adept, Lawrence Dana, when he passed the mile-long firing line of the American Trapshooting Association at Vandalia, Ohio during tournament week in 1930, could barely restrain himself from getting off his train and entering the Grand target championship (fired at 16 yd. with no handicap...
...Edwin F. Hunt, Assistant Attorney General of Tennessee: the U. S. Checkers championship; at Jamestown, N. Y. The tournament, in which 24 district champions entered, was played in rounds of four games each. Spectators were not permitted to speak. The rattle of notes being passed disturbed Checkerist Hunt. For the playoff, he and Nathaniel Rubin of Los Angeles retired to an upstairs bedroom in the Jamestown Hotel, played a round which lasted three days, contained eleven draws, one victory for Hunt...
...five "blokes" whom Perry complimented anonymously last week, two will be absent from Forest Hills?Australia's Jack Crawford, who was too weary to play any more after the Davis Cup interzone final, and Great Britain's "Bunny" Austin who dislikes the strain of a long tournament. With these exceptions the names on the West Side Club scoreboards include nearly all the best players in the world. Topping the list are the members of the U. S. Davis Cup team, Sidney Wood, Frank Shields, George Lott and Lester Stoefen. Experts wondered how o rate the chances of Berkeley Bell, once...
...their games. In the citified suburb of Forest Hills. L. I., groundskeepers rolled, clipped and patted the Stadium courts of the West Side Tennis Club where this week 90 players will start in what, until officials see fit to sanction an open, remains the most important U. S. tournament of the year?the Men's National Singles Championship...
...Perry took a six months' leave from his job in a London sports shop, turned seriously to tennis, which he had taught himself on a public court in London by hitting a ball against a wall. By the time the six months were over, he had won a minor tournament at Chiswick Park, trounced Italy's No. 1, Baron Morpurgo, at Wimbledon, been selected for England's Davis Cup team, and defeated Jack Crawford in their first meeting at Bournemouth. That autumn Perry toured the U. S. and South America with a British team, winning the Argentina championship. The next...