Word: tournament
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Winning three out of a possible four points on the last day of the Y.H.P.D. College Chess Tournament held in New York during the holiday season, the Crimson team once more emerged victorious...
...Cuba's idealistic President Miguel Mariano Gomez y Arias last autumn hit on the idea of a Christmas Sports Festival. Main events on a week-long schedule were to be a New Year's Day football game between two crack U. S. college teams; an amateur boxing tournament; jai-alai matches; an international basketball tournament; the baseball championship of Cuba. As a special opening attraction, Cuban Sports Commissioner Carlos L. Henriquez, one-time Columbia footballer, dug up the ancient stunt of a race between a human and a horse, with famed Jesse Owens making his first track appearance...
During Christmas vacation, the squad will go to Lake Placid to participate in the 16th Annual College Week Ski Tournament and open their competitive skiing...
Featured by many hard struggles and upsets, the wrestling elimination tournament in preparation for the opening match with M.I.T. next Saturday enters its final stages today...
After winning his first major tournament-the British Open in 1933-Densmore Shute did what most playing professionals predicted would speedily ruin his game. Instead of joining the troupe who spend the whole year playing golf for prizes, he calmly continued giving lessons. Shute's lack of competitive sharpening and Thomson's prodigious driving made Thomson a 2-to-1 favorite in last week's final. Out-driven on every hole, sometimes as much as 125 yards, on a course where distance counts, Shute played down the middle of the fairways. Thomson lost the first hole...