Word: tournaments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Defending champion, Way Avory of Dartmouth, paced three of his team mates into the quarter-final round of the New England Intercollegiate Divisional Tennis Tournament at Hanover yesterday, defeating the sole surviving Crimson netter, Corey Wynn...
...preliminary to the National Intercollegiates that will be held in Philadelphia late in June, the Hanover Tournament is one of eight Divisional meets. The eight men who reach the quarter finals automatically qualify for the Philadelphia Tournament...
Twenty men have signed up for the tennis tournament which begins today; the top seven will compete with the winning House team. A golf team later this month will also have to face the winning House divot diggers...
Near the end of the semifinal round occurred an incident characteristic of tournament bridge, which is played with fierce attention to technicalities like a small boys' baseball game. In a nip-&-tuck match, A. Mitchell Barnes of the Vanderbilt team, playing a five-heart doubled contract, led a heart from dummy, pondered whether to finesse. Impatient with Mr. Barnes's slow play, Opponent Robert McPherran said: "It makes no difference." Mr. Barnes thereupon deduced that Mr. McPherran had two hearts instead of three, eventually went down 500 points instead of 300. Mr. Barnes protested that he had been...
Reviewing these feats, Tournament Manager Fred Corcoran of the Professional Golfers' Association last week recommended that men's par, intact for the past quarter of a century, be whittled down for golfers of tomorrow...