Word: tournaments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...children, grand seigneurs, curmudgeons in every condition of physical decay, Paunch, Thin-Shank, Webfoot Waddle-Duck, and erect, haughty old men with life's ensign still crimson in their cheeks, journeyed to the Apawamis Club in Rye N. C., to play in the annual U. S. Seniors golf tournament Among them were famed lawyers and financial figures, a retired rear admiral,* the president of a great insurance company?; they played, each according to his fashion, around the Apawamis course. There were inumerable prizes?for men over 80, for men over 75, putting contests, best net and best gross cards...
...They entertained a lively interest in the sport. They knew all about Robert Tyre Jones, Jr.-may even have known, indeed that his father, a Georgia lawyer, is associated in business with William Gunn, father of Watts Gunn, the 20-year old youth whom Jones brought North to the tournament to "get some experience in championship play...
...only interest which we had in the attached clipping from Page 29, Aug. 17 issue of TIME was that we doubted whether a Western Union messenger would be permitted to deliver a message of such serious import to a golf player at the tee at the beginning of a tournament match. I, therefore, developed the facts and am sending you the report of our local General Superintendent just as he made...
...they (the finalists in the national municipal course golf tournament) stood on the first tee waiting to begin the afternoon round of their match, a Western Union messenger dashed up with a yellow envelope for Serrick. He got into trouble on his drives, he overputted, topped his approaches. Later in the day, with McAuliffe 5 up, he spied his mother in the gallery. "They said you were sick," he whispered. The crumpled telegram read: MOTHER DANGEROUSLY ILL COME AT ONCE...
Last week the summer circus of traveling tennis players gave its show in Brookline, Mass. The event was the National Doubles Tournament at the Longwood Cricket Club...