Word: tournaments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Play had not gone far before major casualties occurred. Hammering hooks, ripping off slices, hewing up divots like graveslabs, ponderous Cyril Tolley of England duffered out of the tournament with a suddenness and completeness that boded ill to Britain's Walker Cup chances later on, for Tolley is the British team's captain. But then U. S. Captain Robert Gardner spent a morning "hitting the ball on the roof" (i. e., topping shots) and dishonors were even. As one despatch paraphrased it: "His driving was singular and putting plural...
...With the tournament for the Intercollegiate Championship in polo only two weeks off, five teams are putting the finishing touches on their campaigns for the intercollegiate title. Play will begin at the Westchester Biltmore Country Club in Rye on June 19, when the University meets Princeton. The final match will be played the following Saturday, June...
...this year's tournament should be one of the closest in the history of the sport. It will bring forth keen competition, certainly, for the University, Yale...
Yale, winner of the national intercollegiate title in 1923, the first year in which the tournament was held, has by its indoor showing more than justified the confidence expressed by partisans of the Blue. The Orange and Black, which pulled a surprise in 1924 by carrying the trophy back to New Jersey, is building a now team and the Harvard quartet is always stronger on turf than on tanbark. Winners last year, the Crimson poloists will return to the Westchester-Biltmore Country Club this month favored to furnish heavy opposition. A bye has been drawn by the Cambridge outfit...
...surprising number of upsets were a feature of this year's tournament. The favorites at the start of the meet were Andover and Loomis. Loomis managed to come within a point of living up to expectations, but the Blue, netmen were wofully weak and finished in a tie for eighth place...