Word: tournaments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...leading U. S. amateur medalist was verified when he won the open title. Last week, golfdom's shadow of doubt about him as a match-player was dissipated when he beat W. T. Thompson (Canadian champion) 6 and 5; D. C. Corkran (Gold Mashie winner, tournament medalist) 3 and 2; R. E. Knepper (onetime Princetonian, demon putter) 6 and 4; Francis Ouimet (onetime amateur and open champion, clockwork putter, inexorable match-player) 11 and 10; then...
...second round of the University Tennis Tournament proceeded according to expectations yesterday. Of the six seeded players who played off their matches all won without any trouble...
...standing upset marked the first round of the University Tennis Tournament which was played off yesterday on the Jarvis Field Courts. All of the eight seeded players won their matches with little difficulty, excepting Parke Cummings '25 who dropped a set to E. M. Upjohn '25, defeating...
...victory of Robert Jones '24 in the National Amateur Golf Championship on Saturday occasioned little surprise in the University. He has always been a brilliant player, one who could be counted upon to finish among the leaders in any tournament which he entered. Experts have long hailed him as the greatest artist among golfers and have predicted that his ultimate coronation would be only a question of time. His performance at Merion did little more than make official a title which he had borne unofficially for several years...
Throughout the tournament Jones played remarkable golf, in fact he seemed to be playing better every day. In the qualifying round he was second with a score of 144. In the first round he put out William Thompson, onetime champion of Canada, by the score of 6 and 5. In the second round he eliminated Clarke Cochrah, who had been breaking course records right and left, 3 and 2. The third man to succumb to Jones' superior golf was Rudolph Knipper, old Princeton star. He was defeated...