Word: tournament
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tennis tournament on the French Riviera, a fresh-minded young English architect falls in love with his partner, a beautiful, pessimistic and wholly mysterious American girl under an alias, discovers only by accident, when she has vanished, that she is the daughter of an eccentric U. S. billionaire who lives somewhere in the Southwest...
...afternoon round. On the 24th green he won his first hole. On the 27th, he was 7 down. On the 29th, White Plains licked White Sulphur. Paul Runyan had won his second P. G. A. championship with a score of 8 and 7, the most decisive margin since the tournament was inaugurated...
...tournament favorites like Denny Shute (who had hoped to win this year's tournament for the third year in a row), Ralph Guldahl (who had hoped to add the P. G. A. to his U. S. Open title), and Gene Sarazen (who had hoped to come through again for the fourth time) all agreed that they were just as well pleased that they had not lasted until the final round...
Long before William Tell displayed his skill with bow & arrow, Saxon wood carvers engaged in a sport called Vogelschiessen (shooting at wooden birds perched on poles). Last week, at Saxony Rest near Milwaukee, 400 of their U. S. descendants gathered for their annual jamboree and Vogelschiessen tournament...
...headed eagle, jig-sawed out of wood and mounted on a pole 30 ft. high. Purpose of the sport is to knock off a claw, a beak, a wing, and thereby win a prize-such as an electric fan, a thermos bottle, a clock. No. 1 prize of the tournament goes to the man who shoots down the last remaining chunk of the bird. He is crowned king and is awarded a "ten-beer boot" (boot-shaped glass 2½ ft. high) which custom says he must fill and pass round & round & round...