Word: tournament
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York's Meadow Brook Club in 1895 a handful of U. S. "golf widows," clad in ground-sweeping skirts and cartwheel hats, staged a tournament to select a national women's golf champion. Best "golf-erine" of the day was Mrs. C. S. Brown of Shinnecock Hills who posted a score of 132 for the 18-hole, one-round tournament...
...final of last week's Men's Singles, aggressive, lefthanded, 22-year-old Jimmy McDaniel and fleet-footed, keen-minded, ay-year-old Reginald Weir put on the best tennis performance that has been seen in Jim Crow tournaments since Negroes first learned to play the game in the 18903. Finalist McDaniel, a pug-nosed, shy Californian, is the Bobby Riggs of Negro tennis. Freshman at Xavier (Negro) University, he has just reached top rank this year. Today his admirers think he can beat Bobby Riggs, but once, when they were both students at Los Angeles high schools...
Sport fans have long been accustomed to rowdy baseballers grousing about the ball they are compelled to use. As tennis-balls have grown fuzzier (to please hard-court players), some tennists have begun to grouse, too. Last week, during the Seabright Invitation Tournament, first of the four major grass-court tune-ups before the National championships at Forest Hills, all the top-flight U. S. tennists roared their disapproval of the extra-fuzzy tennis ball put in use this year (and well liked by the average player because it lasts longer), loudly demanded that some of its fuzz be removed...
Cause of the squabble was Densmore Shute, two-time (1936-37) winner of the tournament and one of the best match players in the world, who was refused permission to tee up his ball on opening day because his P.G.A. dues ($35) were 48 hours late in reaching the Association's secretary. Whereupon 50 of his colleagues -mostly box-office headliners-refused to play, held up the tournament for two hours while officials and players wrangled...
...P.G.A. (match play) championship to the National Open (medal play) championship he won last month and thus become the only professional golfer besides Gene Sarazen to win the two major U. S. titles in one year. Picard, 31-year-old New Englander, had never won a major U. S. tournament although he has long been considered one of the game's best shotmakers...