Word: tournaments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University polo ponies will be shipped by truck this morning to the Myopia Club and their riders will follow at noon for the second of the three test matches which have been scheduled preparatory to the intercollegiate tournament at the Westchester-Biltmore Club starting June 19. Following their well earned victory over the veteran Dedham quartet last Tuesday in defense of the Copley-Plaza trophy, the University mallel men are expected to win their two matches with the Myopians and proceed to Rye with an excellent chance to retain their college title...
...Wednesday afternoon. They will be stabled there until Saturday's final game and sent back to Cambridge on Sunday. Their voyaging will be interrupted by practice for the University horsemen on Monday afternoon and on Tuesday, a week from today, they will be shipped to Rye for the intercollegiate tournament...
...dangerous Francis Ouimet, who had previously eliminated George Von Elm. But Bobby Jones, playing at the top of his game, stood between Harris and the demi semifinal. Their match, the first meeting in title play of a U. S. and a British champion, was the most spectacular of the tournament. At the very third stroke Jones holed an approach for a birdie. He made five more birdies in the next eleven holes. He trounced Harris eight up and six to go, and Harris was by no means off form that afternoon...
...whose work around the greens more than earned him his place in the semifinal. There Jamieson was trimmed by S. F. Simpson, while Jess Sweetser was demonstrating, by a tremendously hard fought win over the Hon. W. G. Brownlow of Ireland, his undoubted superiority over anyone left in the tournament since the departure of Jones. Handicapped by a wrenched knee, the blond strapper turned in a 75 for the 6,738-yd., par 74 course...
Fortune dubbed Vincent Richards her knight last week, as the Franco-U. S. mixed team tournament ended on the courts of the Parisian Racing Club. Three sets went 7-5, 4-6, 8-6-the middle one to Rene Lacoste, the other two to Vincent Richards. Miss Wills bagged two sets from Mme.Rene Mathieu, 6-3, 6-4. Howard Kinsy took two sets out of three from Paul Feret, 6-4, 5-7, 6-4. The Richards Lacoste play was uneven, ragged-served none the less to reverse Lacoste's triumph over Richards at Manhattan, last February...