Word: tournaments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first upset of the tournament came when 23-year-old Edwin H. Haley of Manhattan defeated the hard-driving favorite, Cyril Tolley, one up. But Haley's fame was shortlived, for up popped Dr. Harold D. Gillies, a physician for the King of England, a famed golf theorist who tees his ball almost a foot high, who uses a monster-headed driver, who has studied the function of every muscle, nerve and blood vessel necessary for club-swinging. Dr. Gillies' favorite stunt is driving balls neatly off perpendicular beer bottles...
...season of playing at Dedham ended yesterday with a practise game on Governor Forbes' field. The Harvard quartet will go to Myopia having gained honors last week by winning the Copley Plaza Trophy in a round robin tournament in which the Dedham Club, the Norfolk Club and the Harvard substitutes were also competitors...
Frank Shields of Columbia Grammer School, New York City, defeated Henry Johnson of New Preparatory School, Cambridge, by 6-4, 8-6, 3-6, 7-5 in the finals of the thirty-sixth annual Harvard Interscholastic tennis tournament at Divinity Field yesterday. The match was hard-fought from start to finsh, Johnson led in the last get by 5-3, when Shields rallied to take four straight games for the match...
Play in the tournament opened last Monday on Jarvis Field, and continued on these courts until yesterday, when the semi-final matches were moved to the Divinity courts. In the semi-finals Shields defeated W. Barry Wood of Milton, 6-0, 6-2, while Johnson overcame Walter Thomas of Andover...
...class tennis tournament will get under way when the Juniors meet the Sophomores this afternoon The Senior and Freshman teams have not been selected. The champion team will receive the class numerals...