Word: tourneys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Still in its preliminary stages is the University doubles tourney, in which four duets have reached the quarterfinals, while a consolation singles tournament is also getting under...
...winning a three-set quarter-finals match over tennis mentor Bob Ashley, Bill Wightman, one of his star netmen, last week advanced to the semi-finals of the University summer tennis tournament. Ashley, graduate student, had been the favorite of the tourney...
Next day, the pair moved to Mamaroneck, N.Y., and dovetailed the second half of their match into the Goodall round-robin tourney. By the twelfth green, Burton was out. In the round-robin, he quickly became isth in a field of 15. But he got to see some sub-70 performances by U.S. golfers-with no teeing up on the fairways. The lowest: Jug McSpaden's seven-under...
Tied for ninth place was the Crimson's Bill Rickenbacker who scored a 90-84-174. At the end of eighteen holes, Mulcahy was two strokes down to Jack De Garmo of Connecticut. Picking up four strokes on the outgoing afternoon nine, he salted the tourney away with a 4-4-3 on the final holes...
...fever at Minneapolis, where a record 14,751 jampacked University of Minnesota's fieldhouse, was a measure of the epidemic spread of schoolboy basketball's popularity in virtually every Midwest town. At the final game of Illinois' state tourney, scalpers charged $60 for seats. When Anderson High won the Indiana state championship before a wildly cheering crowd, school closed for three days. Until tiny Danbury (Iowa) High (15 boys) was eliminated last week, R.F.D. Mailman Jack Colbert twice drove 300 miles to Iowa City in his jeep to see Danbury play, sped back...