Word: tournaments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though held to a draw in a match with the visitors last fall, Harvard has since been undefeated, winning all League games and the H. Y. P. tournament at New York. The following men will probably play for the University this evening: D. J. Bronstein 2G. D. H. Mugridge 2G. W. A. Robinson '31, Alexander Saron '31, M. C. Stark '33. H. W. Wiley...
...justified his confidence in it, for in spite of Hagen's spurt, 288 won the National Open championship. Since then Sarazen has played round the circuit every year. No golfer has been more consistent, but many have been more brilliant. Finishing in the first five in almost every tournament he enters, Sarazen has had a way of winning the unimportant ones, of yielding in big events to the inspired rallies of inferior players. Two weeks ago he broke his custom of staying in Florida all winter by going to Agua Caliente, Mexico. The men who have built hotels, casinos...
Walter Hagen was there, and George Von Elm, Horton Smith, MacDonald Smith, Johnny Farrell, Al Espinosa. Leo Diegel was the resident professional. When the tournament was postponed for six days because of rain one-eyed Tommy Armour and a few others had to go home. Then the rain stopped and the cups were set into the greens on the brand-new course on which, until the first tournament competitor started over it, no one had ever played a stroke. The qualifying round was notable chiefly for the bad golf played. At the end of the first round Sarazen was fourteenth...
...American. Because the women golfers who travel from tournament to tournament had nothing to do between autumn days in the East and the first southern events in February, a committee in Biloxi, Miss., organized an event for them two years ago. For a reason never clear and now forgotten, it was called the Pan-American. The greatest women stars in golf played in it when it started; this year the gathering was less notable. When all the matches but one had been played, the field was cut down to Mrs. Marion Turpie Lake and Mrs. Melvin Jones. Mrs. Lake...
...American Golfer, which he recently sold to publisher Condé Nast. Once a year he demonstrates his knowledge of golf by competing in the artists' and writers' championship in Palm Beach. Last week, after eliminating his fellow Nast editor, Frank Crowninshield of Vanity Fair, he won the tournament for the third time, beating Jefferson Machamer, Manhattan artist, 2 and 1. Cartoonist Rube Goldberg, with a handicap of 35, qualified with 140 for 18 holes, then lost his first match without winning a single hole...