Word: tournaments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Freshmen are the only ones who seem to show much interest in the University squash tournament which started Monday, according to announcements made yesterday by the management. In fact, so few matches have been played that the authorities may be forced to default many players in pairs, in order to start the tournament well on its way. In the College tournament only four-fifths of the first round and half of the second round have been played off, while in the Business, Law, and Graduate Schools the first round is only partially completed. All of the seeded players have come...
...University squash tournament got under way yesterday afternoon, with the greatest number of entrants in recent years. One hundred ninety four are competing in the entire University, of which 82 are in the College, 64 in the Law School, 31 in the Business School, 14 in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and 5 in the Engineering School...
...seeded players in the College tournament won their first-round matches without any difficulties. W. P. Dixon '25, H. N. Rawlins '27, A. P. Rose '25, and A. L. Smith '25 are the seeded players in the first half of the draw, while G. D. Debevoise '26, P. M. Lenhart '27, E. M. Upjohn '25, and L. S. Baskins '26 were seeded in the second half. If entrants have not played their first round matches by this evening, they will be obliged to default...
...bout was the final elimination tournament begun some months ago by the New York State Athletic Commission to determine a successor to Johny Dundee,* former titleholder, who had been forced (TIME Sept. 1) to admit he could no longer scale his weight down to 126-lb. maximum allowed for featherweights. Kaplan hit his way to victory in the ninth of 15 scheduled rounds, winning every round...
...banked up,and festooned with a multitude of roses. All through the streets of Pasadena they went, and the populace made carnival, rioting, waving, singing, skipping; wearing roses, smelling roses, throwing roses, wading through roses. For months, a committee had planned it all, the parade and pageant of the Tournament of Roses...