Word: tournament
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British Amateur is the riskiest tournament in the world because, until the final 36, all matches are at 18 holes-which means that luck rather than skill has a large part in determining the winner. For U. S. players the chief hazards always are the wind (invariably a cross one), a course studded with thick gorse and tricky sand traps, greens that require a pitch-&-run shot rather than the backspin approach most U. S. golfers play. More serious than these natural hazards last week was the luck of the draw which placed the unseeded U. S. Walker Cuppers...
...19th green. In the third round, Captain Ouimet was nosed out on the last hole by hard-hitting Cecil Ewing, one of Ireland's best. On the fourth day, a lashing gale and pounding rain swept even sturdy Johnny Goodman off his balance and out of the tournament, beaten by his teammate Charley Kocsis-who was in turn defeated by the homebred Stevenson later in the day. Lone U. S. survivor of the storm was Charley Yates. Playing the most extraordinary golf of the tournament, nonchalant and grinning Yates, who chattered with the galleries between his shots and played...
...soon found himself the pet of the club members, was encouraged to practice with their sticks on the back part of the links. The first time he played nine full holes of the club course he shot a 37, one over par. That was in the 1923 caddies' tournament, which he won. The first time he played the full 18 holes he took 76. By this time the club bigwigs realized that a golfing prodigy was carrying their bags, raised $700 to keep him in high school, got him a part-time job in a printing shop, found...
...amateur boxers into two classes (sub-novice and open), the Daily News Athletic Association did away with the common practice of matching tough but inexperienced youngsters with ring-wise opponents according to the luck of the draw. Today, almost every city in the U. S. has its Golden Gloves tournament, which stretches over a six-week period from the first neighborhood preliminaries to the city finals...
...Helen Wills Moody: the women's singles of the Surrey tennis tournament, her second victory since arriving in England to try to win her eighth English championship at Wimbledon next month; defeating Margot Lumb, No. 10 in British ranking, in the final, 6-3, 6-4; at Surbiton, England. In both tournaments, Mrs. Moody lost only...