Word: tournaments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when the turf is moist and a bright wind is blowing off the tee-flag into your nose, the second hole is not an easy hole at all. Abe Mitchell knows this. Until that hole he had been doing very well in the Roehampton invitation-the first British professional tournament of the year. Rugged and jaunty after a hibernation at St. Albans (where, under the patronage of a wealthy enthusiast, he has been pursuing his studies), he had dealt nonchalantly with various examples of spring exuberance-with young W. B. Smith, whom he defeated 4 and 3; with Archibald Compston...
...dead. Far from it. He had merely defaulted his U. S. and international court tennis titles to Charles Suydam Cutting* because, as the result of a bad attack of influenza, his muscles were so stiff that he could not play in the challenge round of the national court tennis tournament at the Racquet & Tennis club. The funereal tone of the newspaper notices merely emphasized a statement made by a wise man that "athletes die twice?once when Death takes them and once when they retire from sport...
...same time F. R. Chevalier '29 was elected captain of next year's team. The record of the chess team this year has been very satisfactory. The University players defeated Yale in a dual meet last fall, and in an intercollegiate tournament, in which Yale, Princeton, West Point and Harvard were entered, came second to Yale by one half a point...
...soon as the teams get outside there will be a ladder tournament for the 28 new men which will decide the member skip of the second team. This team will be picked from six of the men who here been practicing at Longwood and the semi-finalists in the ladder tournament...
...have been picked by Coach Cowles, on the basis of their past showing, to go on the southern trip during vacation. The schedule for the southern trip has been announced as follows: April 17, the Agawan Hunt Club in Providence, R. L; April 19 and 20, the Mason-Dixon tournament in White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.; April 21, Norfolk Country Club in Norfolk, Va.; April 22, Country Club of Virginia in Richmond, Va.; April 23, Chevy Chase Country Club in Washington: and April 24, West Point at West Point...