Word: tournaments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shanter, he had gone over to Prestwick on the west coast andi for the third year running, whipped all the golfers in the land for the British Open Championship. They gave him the champion's belt, to keep permanently. The next year they did not bother to hold the tournament...
...followed "Bawby" Jones. Excursion trains stopped to watch him. Clergymen, grandmothers, policemen, cripples made shift to get a view. Wet greens-had bothered his putts at first but his second score, a 71, was a portent. Less whiskery than Tom Morris Jr. but quite as serious, "Bawby" started the tournament proper by playing four holes steadily and, at the 530-yard fifth hole, putting his second shot on the edge of the huge plateau green. Peering off at the cup about 40 yards away, he said: "This is the longest putt I ever had to make." He sank the putt...
...with more than the respectable total of 155 out of play. ? His pluperfect form lapsed to mere perfection in a third round of par 73. He finished with another 72, six strokes ahead of two British professionals?Aubrey Boomer and Fred Robson?who had brilliantly equaled the previous tournament record...
Another figure in the tournament was John D. Ames, blond son of Knowlton L. ("Snake") Ames (sinuous Princeton quarterback of the strenuous '90s), who lost to Watts Gunn in the second round but was elected president of the Intercollegiate Golf Association...
...intercollegiate tennis singles matches at the Merion Cricket Club in Haverford, Pa., last week, were not up to snuff, but the championship went to the Southwest for the first time in the 42 years' history of the tournament.* Wilmer Allison, 22, of the University of Texas, ran Ben Gorchakoff of Occidental College (Los Angeles) off the court in 39 minutes in the finals. Score...