Word: tournaments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year. But the season has been even less carefree in those regions beyond the pale where the professionals exploit their prowess for financial gain. Tex Richard, the leading promoter of boxing talent, having taken the new champion, Gene Tunny, under his wing, organized what is known as an elimination tournament to select an opponent for him. But the result resembled that of the struggle between the Kilkenny cats, for when it was all over his several warriors had eliminated each other so thoroughly by a kind of round robin process that no one survived to make any claims...
...University polo team will enter the first Indoor Intercollegiate Polo Tournament at New York tonight when it meets the Pennsylvania Military College horsemen. Yale will at the same time meet the Princeton contingent in the elimination round...
Coach Harry Cowles, speaking of Chandler's chances, said, "If Chandler had been practicing seriously since winning the intercollegiate championship in 1926, there would be no question as to his winning a position on the team. As it is, although he has had but very little tournament play during the past year, he will be a very strong contender. I look for him to win a place on the team...
...members of the University wrestling team qualified in the preliminary round of the New England intercollegiate wrestling tournament last night at Tufts College...
April 9 and 10--North and South tournament at Pinehurst...