Word: tournament
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Socialite Thomas Suffern Tailer: the fourth annual Mid-Ocean invitation golf tournament; beating retired Baseballer Babe Ruth 6 & 5 in the final; in Bermuda...
From his Sewickley, Pa. estate, where he shoots clay pigeons with the Mellons, holds a big invitation pistol tournament every year and plays by ear on his $75,000 organ, President Thomas Atterbury McGinley of Duff-Norton Manufacturing Co. inaugurated a weekly nationwide organ and variety radio program to advertise the jacks he makes for heavy industry. Title: "The House That Jacks Built." Mr. McGinley composed the theme song, At Sunset. Mrs. McGinley wrote the lyrics...
...Engen of Salt Lake City; the national amateur ski-jumping tournament: on Ecker Hill 25 mi. east of his home town; by jumping 245 ft. for a new U. S. record...
...patrician indoor sport. Last week, this point of view appeared to be substantiated when a wiry, darkhaired young Manhattan stockbroker named Robert Grant III, in his first season of serious racquets competition, won the U. S. amateur championship in New York's Racquets & Tennis Club after playing four tournament matches in the course of which he lost only one game...
This season, Grant sent in his name for tournaments which few men would have had the temerity to enter before they had been playing the game five years or more. He won every tournament he entered with ridiculous ease: the Canadian singles championship, the Canadian and U. S. doubles championships (with Clarence Pell Jr.), the Tuxedo Gold Racquet tournament and the Racquets and Tennis Club championship. That he would acquire the U. S. championship as summarily as the others became apparent last week in the semi-finals when, in what most observers considered the most brilliant performance ever seen...