Word: tournament
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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MIAMI, Fla.--Harold "Jug" McSpaden of Winchester, Mass wan the biggest prize of his tournament career to day when he shot a one-under par 69 to turn back a savage, last-round threat by Henry Picard of Hershey, Pa., in the Miami open golf championship...
Paced by Henry Kelly, Last year's 145-pound University boxing champion, who won his match by a technical knockout, Eliot's maulers out socked Lowell to gain a 3 to 2 victory in the first inter-House boxing tournament yesterday afternoon in the Indoor Athletic Building...
Fifty years ago, before cockfights became the target for reformers, New Or-leans-and its interstate mains in the old Spanish pit-was the mecca for cocking fans. Today the No. 1 event is the $8,000, four-day Orlando Tournament, held the last week in January. The tournament is open to any reputable cocker who thinks his batch of birds are worth risking the $500 entrance fee. Only 16 entries are accepted, however, the 16 owners each entering 15 cocks-one for each of the 15 regulation weight divisions ranging, in two-ounce jumps, from...
There is an important question that will have to be decided soon for intercollegiate, amateur football. Is it to be played for the benefit of the players and their immediate collegiate cohorts, or is to be a spectacle staged for the entertainment of the public? The Tournament of Roses officials are now being seriously criticized for nominating Duke to play the University of Southern California in the floral classic. Apparently some feel that the public would prefer Texas Christian University to the Blue Devils. This opinion has been crystallized in the words of certain Californian sports writers, one of whom...
...filled the first five places in yesterday's match were determined for the most part by the standing results of the tournament which is now being held among Varsity men, and which as yet has not reached its final stages. Sickness kept Captain Blake from action...