In 1914 when the town was chosen for the U. S. Amateur Golf tournament, a representative hurried here from the Boston manager's office.

Within a week after the injury, suffered in St. Louis's victory in the final game of the Kentucky tournament, Nordmann was sitting on the Bill's bench doing what he could to help Benington.

After playing a splendid first nine holes in 34 -- two strokes under par -- on this fifth and final day of the tournament ( Sunday's fourth round had been washed out by a violent rainstorm when it was only half completed ), Player's game rapidly fell to pieces.

On that final Sunday at Pensacola neither Palmer nor Player was leading the tournament and, as it turned out, neither won it.

Even so, it was still not clear to many in the enormous horde of spectators -- unquestionably the largest golf crowd ever -- that this tournament was to be, essentially, a match between Palmer and Player.

As the third round of the tournament began on Saturday and the duel was resumed in earnest, it was Player's superior aggressiveness that carried him into the lead.

In 1970, he tied for fourth place at an international tournament in Caracas, Venezuela, and was awarded the grandmaster title.

For example, he once missed first prize in a tournament in Berlin by losing to Sämisch, and when it became clear he was going to lose the game, Nimzowitsch stood up on the table and shouted, " Gegen diesen Idioten muss ich verlieren!

His goal in the 3 – 1 group win over Argentina was his 25th for England in just 38 appearances, but his individual success could not be replicated by that of the team, which was eliminated in the quarter final by Brazil, who went on to win the tournament.

Nevertheless, he was still scoring and creating freely and as the tournament was about to start, he was expected to become one of its stars and galvanise his established reputation as one of the world's best footballers.

It was common in tournament play in the 1980s but is now rarely used.

When he was 15 years old, he played in his first West Indian under-19 youth tournament and that same year, Lara represented West Indies in Under-19 cricket.

Charles was a contestant in the Celebrity Poker Club tournament ( 2004 ) on Challenge, where he reached the semi-finals, and in the Channel 4 reality game show, The Games ( 2005 ), which documented the contestants ' intensive training regime and each live Olympic Games-style sporting event, in which he came fourth overall in the men's competition.

A demonstration tournament was also held during the 1932 Winter Olympic Games between four teams from Canada and four teams from the United States, with Canada winning 12 games to 4 .< ref >

The first multilateral competition at international level was the 1912 Triangular Tournament, a Test cricket tournament played in England between all three Test-playing nations at the time: England, Australia and South Africa.

In subsequent years, international Test cricket has generally been organised as bilateral series: a multilateral Test tournament was not organised again until the quadrangular Asian Test Championship in 1999.

The tournament was won by the West Indies, who defeated Australia by 17 runs in the final at Lord's.

The 1987 tournament, named the Reliance World Cup after their Indian sponsors, was held in India and Pakistan, the first time that the competition was held outside England.

In 2007 the tournament was hosted by the West Indies ; the Cricket World Cup became the first such tournament to be hosted on all six populated continents.

Sa Sartiglia, otherwise known at its inception as Sartilla, is an equestrian tournament held in Oristano for the past 500 years on Carnival Sunday and Mardi Gras.

“ If the head-side is up, the game would be called Mei-Chu ; otherwise, the game would be called Chu-Mei .” As the head-side of the coin went up, the tournament was thereby named Meichu to commemorate the two founding presidents of NTHU and NCTU, Dr. Mei Yi-Chi, and Dr. Ling Chu-Ming.

A bright student, Bell took to the instrument but lived an otherwise normal midwest Indiana life playing video games and excelling at sports, namely tennis and bowling, even placing in a national tennis tournament at the age of ten.

If the 3rd-placed team is 10 or more points ahead of the 4th-placed team, it too is automatically promoted, otherwise the 3rd through 6th-placed teams enter a playoff tournament to determine the other team that will be promoted.

To some extent, this is a self-fulfilling prophecy ; if an amateur engine wins a tournament or otherwise performs well ( for example, Zappa in 2005 ), then it is quickly commercialized.

In both common and official usage, " NIT " or " National Invitation Tournament " refers to the post-season tournament unless otherwise qualified.

Considered a dress-rehearsal for the World Cup it precedes, it uses around half of the stadia intended for use at the following year's competition and gives the host nation, who qualifies for that tournament automatically, experience at a high level of competition during two years of otherwise friendlies.

A once-off triangular Test tournament was held in England in 1912, which saw South Africa play Australia in three tests at neutral venues, but otherwise it has only been security risks which have seen Tests played on neutral soil.

Though Herod insists that he is not Fee's father, his attempts to make him drop out of the tournament and sad reaction to his death hint otherwise.

Currently, all of the Power Nine cards are restricted in the Vintage tournament format and banned in Legacy, the only tournament formats where they would be legal otherwise, and all except for Timetwister are banned in Magic Online's Commander format.

When an otherwise identical white Blastoderm,, was printed seven years later in Planar Chaos the creature failed to have as much impact on tournament play as Blastoderm had had in its day, though.

Sometimes, a team that is otherwise deserving of a bid may be ineligible for the tournament due to an NCAA post-season ban, applied only as a punishment for egregious violations of NCAA rules in that school's program in that sport.

An 11-4 record in the final ( November ) tournament of 2005 was his third runner-up performance in a row and included another victory over the otherwise dominant Asashōryū.

His most notable successes were first-place finishes at Copenhagen 1923, Marienbad 1925, Dresden 1926, Hanover 1926, the Carlsbad 1929 chess tournament, and second place behind Alekhine at the San Remo 1930 chess tournament.

Most notable was Dennis " Thresh " Fong who won John Carmack's Ferrari 328 at the Microsoft-sponsored Red Annihilation tournament in 1997.

There are a number of notable world cups in popular sports, but it is the FIFA World Cup ( an Association football tournament, first held in 1930 ) that is widely known simply as " the World Cup ".

France is notable for holding and winning the FIFA World Cup in 1998, and holding the annual cycling race Tour de France, and the tennis Grand Slam tournament the French Open.

His first notable result in a major tournament was his gold medal win as first reserve for the Russian team in the 1992 Chess Olympiad in Manila.

The most notable tournament of this type is the World Chess Solving Championship, organised by the PCCC.

Several notable teams ranging from Elementary to High School level have advanced as far as world tournament.

The Washington, D. C. tournament was notable because Graf won the first twenty points of the final against Zina Garrison.

In just the pair's first tournament since 2010 Wimbledon, the unseeded sisters advanced to the final with notable victories against fourth-seeded Maria Kirilenko and Nadia Petrova in the second round and top-seeded Liezel Huber and Lisa Raymond in the semifinals.

In spring of 2006, the Mock Trial team was notable in qualifying for the national tournament while only in its 2nd year in operation.

Of the 17 teams that entered the qualifying tournament, notable absentees were England, Holland, West Germany and Italy.

Spain held the next tournament in 1964, which saw an increase in entries to the qualification tournament, with 29 entering ; West Germany was a notable absentee once again and Greece withdrew after being drawn against Albania, with whom they were still at war.

This tournament included most of the world's top players ( Garry Kasparov, Vladimir Kramnik and Gata Kamsky were the only notable absentees ), and Adams won short matches against Tamaz Giorgadze, Sergei Tiviakov, Peter Svidler, Loek van Wely and Nigel Short, before coming up against Anand in the final round.

Nördlingen is also notable for the Scharlachrennen, a notable horse riding tournament that was first mentioned in 1463.

This 1934 team was notable for having the first African-American basketball player in Kansas tournament history.

Other notable events include: The QUEST writing tournament ( October 2003 ), the 24 Hour Poetry Party ( July 2004 ) and October Earth ( October 2004 ).

Other notable tournaments that year were the Queen's Club tournament ( the Graebner-Okker final cancelled due to rain which also delayed the first matches in Wimbledon ) and the greatest pro tournaments where all the NTL and WCT pros could compete ( but without amateur or registered players ) as the U. S. Pro ( outside Boston, on grass ), the French Pro ( coming back to Roland Garros after the 5-edition interlude at Coubertin ), the Jack Kramer Tournament of Champions at Wembley in November and perhaps the Madison Square Garden Pro in December with the four best pros of each organisation.

His 7th place finish at London 1899 was disappointing in comparison, but this was another tournament notable for its impressive list of participants.

Mans ' most notable tournament success was the Benson and Hedges Masters in 1979, beating Cliff Thorburn 5 – 4, Ray Reardon 5 – 3 and, in the final, Alex Higgins 8 – 4, winning the competition with a top break of just 48.

The tournament was also notable for the longest televised frame ( 77 minutes ) between Marco Fu and Mark Selby and Ronnie O ' Sullivan's maximum 147 break in the deciding frame of the semi-final.