Word: tournaments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After a week of tense tennis, the finals of New Brunswick's championship tournament were reached, at Fredericton. Out of one bracket emerged Mrs. H. R. Babbitt; out of the other bracket, Miss Isobell Babbitt, Mrs. Babbitt's daughter. With the assurance of a parent and of a onetime All-Canadian Maritime Province and Provincial champion,* Mrs. Babbitt rolled up points; the first set was hers, 6-3. Her blood fired with youth's impatience, Miss Babbitt rallied to win the second set, 6-1. Nor did she pause at that. It was Mrs. Babbitt, ding, Miss...
...always dangerous but never spectacular. Last year in the finals at Seabright she beat Helen Wills. It was too bad, people said, but you could not expect a champion to be always at her best. When, last week, Miss Ryan cut down Miss Wills decisively in the same tournament, 6-4, 6-1, newspapers reminded the public that Miss Wills had just lost her appendix...
...with daring-do worthy of a new champion. Sturdy Gene Sarazen, leader of the first day's match stepped forward, as did swart Johnny Farrell, ahead the second day, to shake the hand of wee Macdonald Smith, final victor on the third day, in the Canadian Open Golf Tournament last week. Came then the departing champion, nervous Leo Diegel, followed by many another Yankee guest and Canadian host, howbeit the latter had retained for themselves for best but seventh place...
...like a tipsy stork, had withstood him scarely at all. Some people were saying that the theatre* had "gotten" long Will Tilden. Others said: "Nonsense, he will take care of himself when the Davis Cup matches and national championship come along." Some said he was clowning too much, his tournament intensity dissipated by other interests. Others said: "Never think it. Will Tilden is a man of 43; his follies are over, even if he does eat flapjacks at Hollywood now and then. Tennis is his game, his life. He'll not be 'through' for many a moon...
Metropolitan Open. When an ir- resistible force meets an immovable body in a golf tournament, the judges are obliged to arrange a playoff. They arranged a playoff for MacDonald Smith and Gene Sarazen, tied at 286 strokes of the 72 holes of medal play in the Metropolitan Open Championship, last fortnight on Long Island (TIME, July 26). Irresistible Smith and Immovable Sarazen proceeded to take 70 more strokes apiece. They were told to tee off again. Irresistible Smith took 72 strokes more; Immovable Sarazen took 72 strokes more. It was a 108-hole tie, a championship record...