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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First round matches in the Varsity squash tournament will be held in the Linden Street courts this afternoon. The second round will be played off Friday. The first outside matches for the Varsity are coming in December, and this tournament is being held in preparation for these matches...
Champion Armstrong is by no means Hollywood's sole venture into sporting promotion. Middleweight Champion Freddy Steele is partly owned by Bing Crosby, who also supports a girls' baseball team called the Croonerettes, promotes a $3,000 golf tournament, and is the principal stockholder in the Del Mar racetrack near San Diego. Producers Hal Roach and Jack Warner are No. 1 and No. 2 stockholders in the Santa Anita racetrack. Jack Benny, Jimmy Durante, Spencer Tracy, Barbara Stanwyck, Mrs. Zeppo Marx and many another own horses. Clark Gable used to own one named Beverly Hills. Victor McLaglen...
Following are the results of the University fall tennis tournament from the second up to the final round...
...twelve years ago, but then proved its mettle. The break can be dated from New Year's Day 1926, when the University of Washington, Pacific Coast Conference champion, invited what it considered the best team in the U. S. (outside the Conference) to play in Pasadena's Tournament of Roses game. That was Alabama's Crimson Tide which in one of the most exciting second halves in Rose Bowl history won Coach Wade his first 20-to-19 victory...
...often than any other Southern coach), had been there once before his visit in 1926. That was on New Year's Day 1916. as a guard on Brown's great "Pollard team''-so-called for All-America Negro Halfback Frederick ("Fritz") Pollard-which inaugurated the Tournament of Roses' annual U. S. "championship" by losing to Washington State, 0-to-14. In 1917 when Footballer Wade graduated and returned home to his father's farm at Trenton, Tenn. he found Trenton thinking not of the Rose Bowl but of War. After serving during...