Word: tournament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although entries is the University championship tennis tournament were originally slated to close today with the first round of play starting tomorrow, in all likelihood the slats will have to be kept open until next Monday, when the Business School returns from a week-long recess...
Last week, with his rabbit's foot dangling at his belt, Roanoke's champ coolly sized up 39 rival deadeye marbles champs from Montana to Georgia. Larry had to lick them all to win the 23rd annual National Marbles Tournament at Wildwood...
Stockholm's Dagens Nyheter labeled him an "apostle of hypocrisy," and said that Brundage came from a land where a "top tennis player doesn't go to a tournament for less than $500 to $800 . . . and their university sports are the world's biggest amateur fraud." Idrottsbladet got in a lick: "It took Our Lord 800,000,000 years to create the world of today. How long a time will it take Mr. Brundage to learn to understand it?" (Sweden was mad because its track heroes-Gunder Hägg and Arne Andersson-had been barred from...
...dressed in a "refined" sweater and culottes, was wild on her long game, and London's Jacqueline Gordon, who had learned golf from Henry Cotton, was putting with deadly accuracy. At the end of the eleventh hole, the Babe was two down for the first time during the tournament. Said she: "I should have kept my lucky pants...
...Newton Center, Mass., a British subject more than evened things up by continuing to beat the best U.S. pros. By winning the Goodall round robin, South Africa's Bobby Locke (TIME, May 26) made it four out of six tournaments (and some $8,350 in winnings) in two months of U.S. golf. For his last 25 tournament rounds, he was 41 under...