Word: tournaments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dignified Sun broke out with a series of poker-faced articles on WPA Polo: What It Costs To Play ("a moderately good polo pony can be bought for less than $7,500"). Sculptor Jack Lambert offered a bederbied trophy for a politicians' polo tournament. Reporters pestered Park Board President Frank Durkee by asking whether WPA would supply ponies and stabling...
...looked as though their lives revolved around lemon pies and peonies, gathered around the first tee of New York's Westchester Country Club last week, chattering like magpies and nervously fanning the air with their drivers. Stretched ahead of them were 36 holes of golf, a two-day tournament to determine the best U. S. lady golfer between the ages of 50 and 70. Those with handicaps of 14 or less competed in Class A, those handicapped at 15 to 25 in Class B, from 25 up in Class...
...characteristically American as ice-cream sodas, bathing-beauty parades and The Star-Spangled Banner, the World Series agitated many a U. S. citizen last week as the Chicago Cubs and the New York Yankees faced one another in the 35th annual four-out-of-seven game tournament that ends the U. S. baseball season...
Estelle Lawson Page, after breaking all the course records in the Carolinas (she has made five holes-in-one) and winning most of the major Southern tournaments, made national headlines last year when she won the medal honors in the U. S. women's championship for the second year in a row, and then went on to upset golf's famed medal jinx by winning the tournament. Patty Berg made national headlines two years earlier when, as a 17-year-old unknown, she reached the final of the U. S. women's championship in her first...
Last year Thayer wound up on top in the soft ball standings, while Straus won the tennis meet. All matches on the courts were singles and this system will be repeated this fall in the tournament...