Word: tournament
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That Harry Cooper is still No. 1 golfer in the U. S. was conclusively demonstrated during this winter's competition (the first quarter of the 1938 race). Although slam-bang Sam Snead posted the season's lowest score for a single tournament (267 in the Miami Open) and long-driving Jimmy Thomson and painstaking Horton Smith each made headlines with record-smashing 36-hole totals of 131, smooth-moving Harry Cooper, straight as an arrow from tee to green, plodded along-over soft fairways and hard ones, over slow greens and fast ones-like the tortoise in Aesop...
...Henry Picard, Hershey, Pa. professional, the annual Masters' Golf Tournament on Bobby Jones's tough home course in Augusta, Ga., with 285 strokes, three under par. Bobby Jones took 297 strokes and 15th place, was so encouraged by his comeback (last year he was 30th) that he said he might come out of retirement to enter the National Open in Denver in June if he was not required to play through qualifying trials...
Although Cowles declined to predict a probable ranking at this early date, it looks as if Burt, Lowman, and Sulloway will battle it out for the top positions, with Burt, who won the University Tournament as a Freshman in 1936, holding a slight edge...
...step towards an eventual "world's series" for a sport which at present has no national championship, the Metropolitan Basketball Writers' Association is holding this week an intercollegiate invitation basketball tournament in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. Not represented in this tournament, however, are the following outstanding sectional teams of the U. S., all of whom had completed their schedules by last week...
...North Carolina, which, with 13 victories, two losses, led the Southern Conference until in the first round of a post-season tournament in Raleigh its team was put out by Washington & Lee. Duke won that tournament, is thus technically rated champion...