Word: tournaments
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...sports are held in the famous "Tournament Park," acquired several years ago by the city of Pasadena. In this is the finest football field in Southern California and the only turf field. Here for many years winning teams from all sections of the world struggled in championship polo games the afternoon after the Pageant of Flowers, and the sport side of the festival has never been lost sight...
...Victory Tournament Last Year...
...30th festival ushered in the greatest of the Pasadena pageants, "The Victory Tournament." A military spirit pervaded the day. Parades of soldiers, long lines of be-garlanded guns comprised the major part of the morning exercises, while in the afternoon a Mare Island team of marines struggled manfully but in vain against an eleven from the Great Lakes Naval Training Station...
...Procession of Flowers starts the program of the day, a parade in which many classes of floats contend for prizes for the best floral decoration. High schools and colleges, hotels, cities and towns, all have their floats. This year the scope of the tournament has been extended, and cities from all parts of the West are entering floats in the contest...
...accent this year will be upon the beautiful, departing from the military aspect of last year's victory tournament. The floats this year are expected to surpass in their magnificence those of former years, some of which have become historical, such as the famous flower peacock entered by Mrs. Anita Baldwin...