Word: tournament
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thursday, Oct. 5--Play begins in all House tournaments. The winners in each House will meet in an Inter-House Championship tournament...
Last week, when he had just about forgotten the galling incident, Golfer Nelson received an anonymous letter: "On September 3, during the golf tournament at Hershey . . . a lady in our party, one of my guests, unwittingly picked up your ball. She knows nothing about the game and did not realize what a lost ball means to a player. I did not learn about it until it-was too late. . . ." As he turned the page, three blue papers fluttered to the floor. They were three $100 money orders...
...quintet of German chessmen: the biennial international tournament for the Hamilton-Russell Cup.* Davis Cup of chess; conquering 26 other nations and just squeezing out a team of nerve-racked Poles by half a point (36 to 35½); after a siege of 27 days; at Buenos Aires. U. S. chessmen, victors in 1933-35-37, did not compete this year because they couldn't be bothered...
...ANGELES--John Bromwich, the ambidextrous Australian tennis star, jolted Bobby Riggs, Chicago, National Champion, from the Pacific Southwest tennis tournament today in a hard-fought 6-4, 6-4, 0-6, 6-3 match...
...Horn, who prefers Welby because he thinks Sidney sounds like Percy, showed an overhead game like Budge's, a forehand like Vines's, a backhand like nobody's and a service like sixty to nudge the tired veteran Bromwich (a year his senior) out of the tournament...