Word: tournaments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...children. Once an able athlete (in 1906 he pitched for St. Viator's College a no-hit, no-run game against Illinois, Big Ten baseball champion that season), he has seen his CYO boys' boxing teams ("The Bishop's K.O. Boys") win the Chicago Golden Gloves tournament every year since...
...22nd annual P.G.A. championship tournament, held last week at the Pomonok Country Club, almost within a trylon's length of the New York World's Fair, will long be remembered for: 1) the noisiest squabble in the history of the Professional Golfers Association; 2) the most exciting final waged between two bread-&-butter putters...
Every summer, around the Fourth of July, the interest of U. S. sport fans focuses on the British Isles where three of the oldest and most important sport events in the world are usually going full swing: the Henley Royal Regatta, the British Open golf tournament and the All-England tennis championships...
...Andrews, royal & ancient cradle of golf, only three U. S. golfers were among the 240 who teed up their balls last week in the 74th British Open, world's No. 1 golf tournament. But when the field narrowed down to two, one of the finalists was an American: big Johnny Bulla, a Chicago pro who was playing in his first British tournament. After finishing his last round in 73 for a 72-hole total of 292, it looked as if an American would once again win the Open. But while Johnny Bulla fidgeted in the clubhouse...
Next day in the women's final, U. S. No. 1 Alice Marble, after drubbing Poland's Ja-Ja Jedrzejowska and Denmark's Hilda Krahwinkel Sperling, defeated England's Kay Stammers, 6-2, 6-0, with the most brilliant tennis of the whole tournament. While 18,000 excited spectators compared Miss Marble to the late great Suzanne Lenglen, the new champion came back to the centre court to win the women's doubles (with Sarah Palfrey Fabyan) and the mixed doubles (with Bobby Riggs). Riggs & Cooke took the men's doubles to make...