Word: tournaments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hill '31, 'captain-elect of the University tennis team, paired with H. L. Coggeshall 1L, winner of the annual fall tennis tournament last fall, was winner of the Massachusetts State Doubles Championship, just completed at the Newton Center Squash and Tennis Club. The victorious paid in the final round defeated G. E. Abbott and W. W. Weld '16, former state titlists, by a full-length match...
...event which Bobby Jones had never won, because he privately admitted that to win it was his keenest ambition, because no matter how things might come out he was obviously the best golfer entered, critics in their despatches and sport followers in their talk discussed last week's tournament from a standpoint of "Jones against the field." But few experts figured that he was sure to win. Even the greatest golfer in the world must have a bad round now and then, and in any tournament where five days of 18-hole matches lead up to a 36-hole...
...formality, but very pleasant. Lanky Roger Wethered, champion in 1923, is one of those easygoing, impersonal British sportsmen who consider it bad form to show their desire to win. His sister Joyce, British women's champion, who trounced her brother in a practice foursome with Jones before the tournament, followed the play as though it were just a rather specially jolly match, with an inevitable conclusion, between her brother and a friend. After a good first nine, Brother Roger went, as usual, erratic. Jones stayed at top form. Four up at lunch, he ate a fruit salad, drank...
...conjunction with the Intercollegiate Championships, the Merion Cricket Club will hold a tournament beginning Tuesday morning, June 24, for all players who have been eliminated in the Singles Championship...
...colleges and universities represented at the tournament last year included Amherst, Army, Brown, Bucknell, Butler, Cambridge, Chicago, Cincinnati, Columbia, Cornell, Dickinson, Franklin and Marshall, Florida, Fordham, Gettysburg, Georgetown, Grinell, Harvard, Indiana, Kenyon, Lehigh, Minnesota, Navy, N. Y. U., Notre Dame, Occidental, Oregon, Oxford, Pennsylvania, Penn State, Pittsburgh, Princeton, Rice, Rutgers, Southern California, Southern Methodist, Stanford, Swarthmore, Texas, Tulane, Union, Ursinus, Vanderbilt, Virginia, Western State Teachers College, and Yale...