Word: tournament
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...better man long enough to be sure of demonstrating his superiority against the hazards of the game, are the hardest kind. In all 31, he only once had to play off a tie. At Cleveland, last week, he played 156 holes 19 under par, went through the whole tournament without taking more than five strokes on any hole, and made it apparent that his superiority to the rest of the world's amateur golfers today is at least as great as Jones's was five years...
...Silverton, Ore., ladies of the local country club played a strip golf tournament, one garment for each hole. Unlucky Mrs. Ralph Bilyeu left the course first, reduced to a shoe and a piece of lingerie. Mrs. J. Werle who stepped to the first tee wearing six petticoats, pantaloons and a hoop skirt, won with the loss of only three petticoats...
Spectacles. Meantime, for ten days and nights, the rest of the Fair Grounds was a whirlwind of exciting spectacles. The State amateur baseball championship was settled, while 4-H Club teams grunted through their Kittenball tournament. Back of the Live Stock building fiddlers squeaked in competition, while young men in knitted shirts pitched championship horseshoes. The Fair offered no greater sight than the team pulling contest. The first time F. F. Martin of Bridgewater tried to hitch his huge draft horses to the pulling machine (a truck rigged backwards) the beasts took fright when the doubletree dropped against their heels...
Women. Left-handed Kay Stammers, prettiest girl in the tournament, warmed up with Perry, beat one Gertrude Dwyer 6-0, 6-2, after winning eleven games in a row. For her first opponent, Helen Jacobs drew Mrs. H. Walter Blumenthal (the onetime Baroness Levi), fifth in U. S. women's ranking, had a hard time winning, 6-3, 6-4. Mrs. Sarah Palfrey Fabyan played the best tennis of the women during the week, avalanching Helen Pederson with hard drives and volleys in two love sets...
...cowboy hat. Lloyd Budge, who became good enough to be tennis coach at St. Mary's College, beat Brother Donald regularly until 1933. That year the younger Budge, not yet 18, won the California Championship for men. A diffident, stringy, surprisingly agile youth, he appeared in major Eastern tournaments the next year, impressed critics with a sounder repertory of strokes and more tennis intuition than any of his contemporaries. Last spring, he and his fellow Californian, Gene Mako, were named for the Davis Cup team more to give them competitive seasoning than because anyone actually expected them to help...