Word: tournaments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Washington he finished seventh and last in the world's championship 18.2 balkline billiard tournament, winning not a game. Last week he began the 1929 tournament in New York by vanquishing Edouard Horemans, of Belgium, the sleek, wavy-haired, temperamental titleholder, 400 to 292. Then he outcued Felix Grange of France, then Eric Hagenlacher of Germany. His chances of winning seemed so good that he calmly announced: "I really believe that I'll go right through the field...
Matsuyama's beady eyes watch every move his rivals make in tournament play. From a mental pigeonhole he was able, last week, to draw the information that Horemans was weak only in open-table play. The discovery of this secret defeated the champion...
...billiard championship means a $6,000 salary for a year, during which the title need not be defended; $2,500 in cash; a percentage of the championship tournament receipts; a diamond emblem; several thousands of dollars in fees for exhibition matches...
Entrants in the University handball tournament, which will last until March 1, must sign up on the sheets posted in the Hemenway Gymnasium by noon today...
...York, February 15.--W. J. Iselin '29, captain of the Harvard squash team, lost to Strachen of Princeton in the first round of the National Squash Racquets Tournament which started at the Harvard Club here this afternoon. Strachen took the match in straight games, the score being...