Word: tournament
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other top golfers were also chosen last week. At Pinehurst, N. C. professional golfers took to the courses to compete for the Mid-South championship. In a pro-pro best ball tournament, the teams of Mike Turnesa & Tony Manero, and Horton Smith & Jimmy Thompson tied for first with...
...South open championship two youngsters fought it out on the third and final day: Dutch Harrison, Mississippi open champion after four years of tournament play, and Henry Clay Poe, 22, one-time Duke University golfer who had just turned pro. At the end of the outward nine holes Youngster Poe led Harrison, 37 to 39. Square at the 15th, Harrison was one stroke behind at the 16th. But the pressure was too much for Youngster Poe. On the par four 18th he hooked his drive and came off with a five. Harrison shot a birdie three, winning $250 first money...
...pocket billiards (vulgarly called "pool"), pale, dark-haired Ralph Greenleaf ranks about tops, has been champion most of the time for 15 years. Last week in Philadelphia Billiardist Greenleaf and lantern-jawed Billiardist Irving Crane each had eight victories and three defeats after a three weeks' tournament among twelve top-ranking players. In the eleventh inning of the playoff, Crane, having scratched five times, found himself with a total of minus one to Greenleaf's 49. Then Billiardist Greenleaf strode to the table and started sinking balls so fast that one had scarcely thudded into a pocket before...
Competitions have begun in the newly organized Freshman chess tournament. Over 40 men have already signed up for the contest which will continue throughout the whole year...
About 60 men have come out for the Varsity, and a tournament is now being held to determine the lower part of the team. This year, however, the team feels the loss of Richard Dorson, who played number one on the team last year and won the Intercollegiates...