Word: tournament
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French champion, Francine Tollon. On the 10th green she flopped on the ground, squeaked "oh my, how exhausting the tight matches are," lost on the 17th. Sheep-faced Diana Fishwick, who was champion in 1930, broke the course record in a qualifying round, got put out of the tournament by one Clarry Tiernan who, perturbed by her achievement, ran to hide in the dressing room. Before the final, a disgraceful confusion arose. Pamela Barton, 18-year-old star who was runner-up for the title last year, defeated her sister, Mervyn, in the semifinals, then discharged her caddy...
...Manhattan, reporters gathered on a dock to meet a tall, grey-haired young woman who, if she had been in the field at Newcastle, would certainly have won the tournament. She was Joyce Wethered, greatest woman golfer in the world, arriving to play a series of exhibition matches to exploit Wanamaker's golf supplies. At the Women's National Golf & Tennis Club, Miss Wethered proved that she was thoroughly off her game by shooting a 78, which gave her and Johnny Dawson an 18-hole match-play tie against Gene Sarazen and Mrs. Glenna Collett Vare. Two days...
...Army doctor, he had learned golf on a course laid out on the site of a Chinese graveyard near Tientsin where his father was stationed eleven years ago. He began to play seriously when his father returned to the U. S. In 1927, he took to entering major tournaments and in 1929, at 18, accomplished his first noteworthy feat by beating Johnny Goodman who had just beaten Bobby Jones, in the U.S. Amateur. Last year he won the British Amateur at Prestwick, after the most one-sided final in the tournament's history when, against a frightened Troon carpenter...
...British Amateur is the riskiest tournament in the world because until the 36-hole final all the matches are 18 holes, which means that luck rather than superior skill is likely to decide the outcome. At St. Anne's last week, Little had more good luck than bad. In the first round, playing shaky golf, he nosed out an opponent who was even shakier, one up. In the next rounds, while he was playing better, most of the British golfers conceded the best chance of beating him, like Jack McLean, Cyril Tolley and Leslie Garnett, were being eliminated from...
...strength of the various teams competing in the New England Tournament cannot be determined yet but it is believed Dartmouth and Harvard will be the men to beat. The 32 low qualifiers today will continue playing tomorrow, in quest of the prizes for the low man and the winning team...