Word: tournaments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...number of strokes required to play a hole perfectly. For most 18-hole golf courses par (for men) ranges from 70 to 72.* A decade ago, when Supergolfers Bobby Jones, Gene Sarazen and Walter Hagen dominated U. S. fairways, four par rounds were good enough to win almost any tournament. Last week, when this year's troupe of top-notch U. S. golf professionals concluded their winter trek around the "grapefruit circuit," the scores they whacked into the record books conclusively proved that par has lost its meaning...
...tournaments the average winning score was eight below par. It took a nine-below-par 279 to win the Masters Tournament at Augusta, one of the toughest tests of golfing skill on the North American continent...
...chalked up in the third round of the Texas Open by Harold ("Jug") McSpaden (in a warm-up round he shot 59). In the Miami Four-Ball Tournament Partners Ralph Guldahl & Sam Snead played nine holes...
Last week, indoor polo held its national tournament in Manhattan's Squadron A Armory. Most sensational performance: Clarence ("Buddy") Combs, son of a New Jersey horse trader, scored twelve of his team's 15 goals in the first game, six of its ten goals in the second, won the junior (medium-goal) championship almost singlehanded for New Jersey's Pegasus Club...
Activities in the House are fairly varied and well participated in since most of them are the direct result of suggestions from House members. They include a bridge club which sponsors a tournament, a ping-pong tournament, informal victroia dances, a photographic exhibit, and an original play...