Word: tournaments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Virtually ignored by the U. S. press, the Galveston tournament was Big News elsewhere in the world. In Paris, Madrid, Vienna, Rio de Janeiro, editors frantically cabled for longer and faster reports on just what Miss France, Miss Spain, Miss Austria, Miss Brazil were doing, wearing, saying at each instant of the final ceremony. U. S. reporters endeavored to supply the demand. In the Galveston City Auditorium behind the horseshoe platform on which the beauties paraded, were a dozen correspondents and as many telegraph operators. Minute by minute the correspondents dictated their stories. Sample dictation...
...Malay States. Edward of Wales watched for a while, then amused himself 'by practicing some drives of his own, employing the methods taught him last month by British Open Champion Walter Hagen. Said he: "At last I have learned to play golf," but he did not enter the tournament...
...team played an informal match with the Myopia Club on Saturday and will do so again today. The team is at present without the services of captain F. A. Clark '29, who is at Red Top with the crew, but since the first tournament match for Harvard not come until June 22 he will be enabled to play in the outdoor classic, contrary to previous expectations. The scheduled match with Yale at Cambridge for this Saturday has been cancelled since Yale plays Pennsylvania Military College that day in the opening round of the intercollegiates...
...Guineas. Back to Moortown. England, where the Ryder cup was won for Great Britain (TIME, May 6) went U. S. and British professionals last week to play in the Yorkshire Evening News 1,000 guineas ($5,000) tournament. Again, Walter Hagen lost to George Duncan. Leo Diegel won a nickname, "Eagle-Diegel." Joe Turnesa won the 1,000 guineas from sad-faced Herbert Jolly of England by holing a chip shot for an eagle 3 at the 37th hole. Other spectacular moments...
Wing was the high scorer of the day with his unusually high total, and also succeeded in making 16 consecutive bulls eyes. The team was the same as that which finished fourth in the intercollegiate tournament at Annapolis last Saturday except for M. M. Johnson '31 who joined in yesterday's competition...