Word: tourneys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Intramural swimming is scheduled to get under way in two or three weeks, while baseball, softball, and tennis will replace basketball when the athletic program moves outdoors on April 23. The coming hoop tourney is the third since the present basketball season started last term...
...Pensacola last week, Snead had strokes to spare. On one sizzling round (the second), he posted eleven pars, six birdies, one eagle to equal the course record of 64. His tourney-winning 267-a fabulous 21 under par-put him seven strokes up on Nelson, who came from nowhere to finish second. It also gave him a five-four lead over Nelson in the winter winner's race. Any golfer who could do that required no sympathy for his bad back and worse hook...
Final Standings (second tourney): Won Lost Standish 7 1 Company C 6 2 Company D 4 3 Companies F-G 4 3 Lowell 3 4 Adams 2 5 Companies H-I 2 5 Companies...
After three wobbly games, Hoppe's cue began to find its proper voice. The fourth time up, he clicked off two runs of eight, set a tourney mark by bagging the required 50 points in only 20 innings. Once he had found himself, even the lingering aftereffects of amoebic dysentery, picked up on a Central American tour, could not keep him from making the most difficult of shots-such as a six-cushion carom with the object balls frozen on the rail...
...Bronx." The Queen said she knew The Bronx was a borough of New York City, then asked how it got its name. When Maher could not answer, Lieut. General John C. H. Lee, the Queen's escort, offered $20 to anyone who could. An onlooker, Captain Bill Tourney, a 31-year-old Bronxite, spoke up: "It is named for a German or Dutch farmer . . . who settled there...