Word: tournament
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Freshman team is as yet undecided, but the number of candidates indicates a strong team. A tournament for the first-year men is now in progress, but only the first round has been completed...
...Louis just a year ago, a glum, well-built Negro won the U. S. amateur light-heavyweight boxing championship by scoring his 34th knockout in the finals of the A. A. U. tournament. Last week in Chicago, as glum as ever, though he is picked by many experts as the next heavyweight champion of the world, Heavyweight Joe Louis continued his surprising career as a professional with his 14th knockout in 18 fights, against a thick-skulled New Jersey trial horse named Roy Lazer. At the ringside, more worried about Louis than his next opponent, James J. Braddock, whom...
Meanwhile in St. Louis last week, 32 boxers scuffled, danced, staggered through the last night of another A. A. U. tournament. Another Louis, Louis Nova of San Francisco, won the amateur heavyweight championship for 1935 by thrashing Joe Malinsky of Cleveland. Successor to Joe Louis, as light-heavyweight champion, was a Cleveland welder named Joe Bauer. Of the eight title-winners, four-Dave Clark (160 lb.), Al Netlow (126 lb.), Troy Bellini (118 lb.) and Bauer-were members of Chicago's Golden Gloves team (TIME, April...
...What can you do to beat a guy like that?" Next day, after a 36-hole playoff, the question still remained unanswered. Completely calm after an experience which, by precedent, should have unnerved him, strutting around the course like a stocky, brown-faced gnome, swarthy little Sarazen won the tournament as he had promised friends he would do, 144 to Wood...
...same tournament, which is now the only one he enters, played over the course he helped design, Robert Tyre Jones Jr. is a perennial hero and popular host. Followed by galleries as closely as when he was undisputedly the greatest golfer in the world, Jones last week made it clear that his hold on the public has nothing to do with his putting touch by finishing with 297, in a triple tie for 25th...