Word: tournaments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...annual University tennis tournament will get under way this fall when competitors for the singles crowns in classes A and B meet next week on the courts of Jarvis Field and the Divinity School. The doubles play will open for all students in the University early next week...
...Party (Farmer-Labor), a sick man (TIME, Sept. 16). The third. Dr. George T. Gregg of Pittsburgh, is the best U. S. golfer over the age of 55. This he proved last week by scoring 156 for two rounds at Apawamis (Rye, N. Y.), in the tournament of the U. S. Senior Golf Association. Then he proceeded with oldster colleagues to Ottawa; Canada, and won a tournament of the Canadian Seniors' Golf Association, a one-round medal event for a cup presented by the U. S. seniors.* His card was 77, two strokes better than Charles D. Cooke...
...Lacoste or Henri Cochet of France been entered. But Lacoste was so seriously ill in the Swiss Alps that he may never be able to play again, and Cochet, treated arrogantly by U. S. officials last year, had not returned to defend his title. Thus the tournament resolved itself before the finals into a contest between Tilden and the generation of younger players whom he has always so far been able to beat...
...lower half of the draw was Francis T. Hunter against the field. This contained 37-year-old Richard Norris Williams II, champion in 1914 and 1916 who in the round before the quarter-finals played what tennis players considered the most brilliant tennis of the tournament in beating young Arnold Jones. The finals, as had been expected, were played by Tilden and Hunter...
Seventy-two holes of tournament golf is a lot of tournament golf for a woman when it is all medal play. The first such tournament was played last week at the Flossmoor club near Chicago where women's par is 80 strokes. Four times par was broken and once it was equalled, but the final scores in a field of 49 were a long parade beginning 14 strokes behind the par 320 scored by chunky, freckle-some Helen Hicks of Long Island. She had two course-record-breaking 78's to start with, which gave her subsequent...