Word: tournaments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rest, one learns that Author Wills requires three new balls a set though she remembers the time when she was "delighted with any ball as long as it would bounce."-She once realized in a tournament that something was wrong, but did not discover until after the match that her opponent was left-handed.-Her "Poker Face" ("a point I have never before discussed") is due to concentration rather than, as popularly supposed, lack of emotion.-When they pinned the Phi Beta Kappa key over her fast-beating heart she experienced one of the happiest moments of her life...
Until the recent National High School Basket Ball Tournament at Chicago, I would have answered both of the above in the positive. But now I am inclined to believe negatively-How on earth could the conductor of your Sport Column overlook the wonderful victory won by the "Tomcats" of Ashland, Kentucky? How does their "clean play" record of going through the entire tournament without a single personal foul compare in "reader interest" with your recent story (under "Records") about the fat man from Hamburg who swam the sea lion to sleep...
What per cent of TIME'S great circulation do you suppose was directly interested in the Tournament at Chicago where forty-two teams, from various parts of the United States, so gallantly fought for the championship...
...flashes of the brilliant form which has assured him a place on the Davis Cup squads of the past several years. Early this spring, Chandler participated in the Davis Cup tryouts held in Georgia, under the leadership of W. T. Tilden H; he returned from the midst of the tournament when his studies called him back to the Law School
...soon as the teams are selected, a tournament for the class championship will begin, the Freshmen being represented by their second team. All matches will be played on Jarvis Field...