Word: tournaments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such a case is as good as a medieval tournament to set champions a-jousting. On the one side was the mighty Samuel Untermyer, champion of Mrs. Stokes. On the other side rose Max D. Steuer, challenger for the irate husband. As lawyers both men rank with the Launcelots, Bediveres and Geraints, if not the Galahads. And for the sake of the rich rewards at stake, they jousted at one another as much as at the other's client...
British Mixed Foursome. At Worplesdon, the final important golf tournament of the year came to a close with Joyce Wethered and Cyril J. H. Tolley the mixed foursomes champions of Britain. Miss Wethered, four times national champion, played the matches for the first time without the partnership of her brother Roger. The latter, paired with Molly Gourlay, champion of France, was early defeated...
Nine-Inch Tee. The notable feature of the British mixed foursome tournament was a nine-inch tee employed by one M. D. Auckland. Though the dizzy elevation enabled him to develop prodigious distance on the drive, Mr. Auckland's fairway shots were fallible. The firmest lie on the finest carpet looked to him like a niblick shot...
Five more matches in the third round of the University squash tournament were played yesterday. None of the matches were of unusual interest, however, inasmuch as the winners came through in straight sets. Lenhardt defeated Burrows, 2-0; Baker defeated Newburger, 2-0; Corning defeated Benheim, 2-0; Debevoise defeated Morris, 2-0; and Runlin defeated Douglas...
...tournament will probably not reach the semi-finals until the latter part of next week...