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  pgamediaguide.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The PGA Championship, the annual culmination of golf's four major championships, celebrates its 86th anniversary in 2004 with its first visit to Whistling Straits in Kohler, Wis. Since its inception in 1916, the PGA Championship has evolved into one of the world's premier sporting events.
The PGA Championship was born in the mind of department store owner Rodman Wanamaker, who saw the merchandising possibilities in a professional golfers’ organization.
The PGA Championship was put on hold for two years because of World War I. It was resumed in 1919 at the Engineers Country Club in Roslyn, N.Y. Barnes was again Champion, turning back Fred McLeod, 6 and 5.
www.pgamediaguide.com /pgachampionship.cfm   (3106 words)

  
 1986 Open Championship - Sharkive - Sharkwatch - Shark.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Towards the end of the last century, Scottish landowners, particularly the nobility among them, were more likely to have sought their sporting pleasures from river bank, glen or moor than from the golf links which, even then, were dotted in fair profusion round their coastline.
He was elected by popular acclaim as a golfer of some ability, conscious of the part his Club had played in starting the Open Championship and in running it, first on an individual basis, and then in tandem, until such time as the Royal and Ancient took ultimate control.
My own introduction came in the Amateur Championship of 1961 and I don't remember being more moved by the first sight of any course or, more accurately, the course and the splendours of its surroundings as seen from the terrace of the hotel.
www.shark.com /sharkwatch/sharkive/1986openchampionship/open2.php   (2695 words)

  
 NFL.com - NFL History
At the league meeting in Akron, April 30, the championship of the 1920 season was awarded to the Akron Pros.
Frankford edged the Bears for the championship, despite Halas having obtained John (Paddy) Driscoll from the Cardinals.
The NFL championship was won by the cross-town rival New York Giants, who posted 10 shutouts in 13 games.
www.nfl.com /history/chronology/1921-1930   (1452 words)

  
 CNN/SI - SI Online - This Week's Issue of Sports Illustrated - The 50 Greatest Sports Figures: South Dakota - Wednesday ...
Was the nation's leading jockey in 1921, '23 and '27; in '30 rode Gallant Fox to the Triple Crown.
First South Dakotan to be named All-America at a major college, as tackle at Minnesota in 1940; spent four years with Packers.
Five-time South Dakota amateur champion (and brother of Tom) has won more than $1.7 million in 17 years on the PGA Tour.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /features/1999/states/southdakota   (972 words)

  
 Morgan Info - History :: American Morgan Horse Association
The early Morgan contributed bottom, stamina, substance and purity of gait at the trot to the lines of the American Standardbred, enhancing the speed later given to the breed by the Hambletonian stallion.
1907—The American Morgan Horse Farm was established in Weybridge, Vermont, by the U.S. Department of Agriculture for the breeding and preservation of the Morgan horse.
South Woodstock, Vermont—Location of the old National Morgan Horse Show before it moved.
www.morganhorse.com /resources/info_history.php   (1458 words)

  
 The Clarion Issue - Column
Americans tuned out the conventions choosing to cast a vote with their clickers and voted for summer reruns and baseball games rather than the political rhetoric filled pep rallies held by the Democrat and Republican parties in honor of their candidates.
Americans see the Republican Party as a party of the wealthy and extreme right, and they feel the Democrat Party is controlled by the left.
Americans also feel that no matter who wins, our elected officials are more influenced by special interests, large corporations, and political ideology rather than the reality of daily life in middle-class America.
www.southerndomains.com /Newspaper/Archive/1204/Column.html   (12083 words)

  
 EARLY HISTORY OF ORGANIZED TRAPSHOOTING A TIMELINE FROM 1831   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Twenty-third Grand American held at Atlantic City, NJ The Amateur Trapshooting Association (ATA, 1919-present) was organized to replace the American Trapshooting Association.
The first Grand American under this new association was in Chicago, the final year it would moved yearly.
The twenty-fifth Grand American was held at the new homegrounds.
www.pssatrap.org /trapshootinghistory.htm   (1044 words)

  
 SC African-American History Online
This month-by-month outline of historic dates relevant to South Carolina African American history offers readers a perspective that compliments the biographical data on African American leaders.
Claude A. Barnett, founder of the Associated Negro Press, was born in 1889.
George Washington Murray was elected to Congress from South Carolina in 1895.
www.scafricanamerican.com /timeline.asp?display=sep   (352 words)

  
 Untitled Document
In 1964, when the massive American buildup began, there were roughly 40 U.S. and foreign journalists in Saigon.
American journalists are among the 42 U.S. civilians still missing in action and unaccounted for in Southeast Asia, including NBC News correspondent Welles Hangen and Time photographer Sean Flynn, both of whom disappeared while covering the war in Cambodia.
He interviewed trumpeter Miles Davis and political activist Malcolm X for Playboy in the 1960s and later collaborated with the Black Muslim spokesman to write The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965), an acclaimed work that fueled the fl-power movement in America and was cited extensively in institutions of higher learning.
www.leasingnews.org /American_History/feb_10.htm   (4745 words)

  
 The Open Championship / History / The Great Triumvirate
Jock Hutchison, a St Andrean who had become an American citizen, was the 1921 winner in his home town and from 1924 until 1933 every Open champion was an American.
Walter Hagen and Gene Sarazen were at the height of their powers during this period, but the man who captured the imagination of golfers throughout the world was Bobby Jones.
In the post war years South African Bobby Locke and Australian Peter Thomson established an almost unrivalled winning combination, capturing the title four times each in a 10-year period from 1949.
www.pga.com /openchampionship/2005/history_triumvirate.html   (465 words)

  
 World Golf Hall of Fame Member Profile
He won the 1921 U.S. Open at the Columbia C.C. by nine strokes and the 1925 British Open at Prestwick, when he came from five strokes behind after Macdonald Smith faltered with a final-round 82.
Barnes was runner-up in the PGA to Walter Hagen in 1921 and 1924.
In 1916, he also won a PGA Stroke Play Championship played after the match-play event, but it was never counted as official.
www.wgv.com /hof/member.php?member=1126   (631 words)

  
 American University Library - Womens' Biographies Mediagraphy
Focuses on the life and death of Janice Jirau, an African American woman, who was infected with the virus by her husband.
Maggie, a homeless woman who wanders in New York's Central Park with her pack of dogs and an enormous backpack, claims to be the daughter of the actor Robert Ryan and the wife of the Roman god Jupiter.
It tells the story of their experiences as first generation Americans and the difficulties of blending a contemporary American life style with the cultural heritage and traditions of India.
www.library.american.edu /subject/media/women.html   (7268 words)

  
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Stained relations between the North and the South hinted at trouble to come as the Union consisted of 11 free and 11 slave states.
The North, however, was rapidly outdistancing the South in population and held a grown numerical advantage in the House of Representatives.
Seattle's strikers had not yet gained ground on their wage demands, but they heeded the call and headed back to work, releasing the city from their grip on this day in 1919.
www.leasingnews.org /American_History/feb_06.htm   (4710 words)

  
 American Track and Field -- Regional News Article
This year, the women's favorites are Texas and South Carolina, and it should be a race to the wire since the Longhorns and Gamecocks are strong in the many of the same events.
Spearmon set an American indoor record of 20.10 in winning the NCAA indoor title in March, and the Arkansas sophomore dropped his outdoor best to 19.97 at the Mt. SAC Relays in April.
Henderson, a member of the U.S. foursome that won an Olympic gold medal in the 1,600 relay in Athens, is the top-seeded entrant in the 400 at 50.78.
www.american-trackandfield.com /news/ncaatrackchamps05preview.html   (1132 words)

  
 African American World . Printable Page | PBS
Americans, particularly Southerners, are terrified by these events, which discourage the importation of slaves into the U.S. and probably hasten the end of the slave trade.
The immediate trigger is the arrest of a young African American man charged ith reckless driving; the underlying cause is probably mass unemployment and poor living conditions among L.A,'s African Americans, combined with widespread racism.
The case was initially filed by six African American Texaco employees who charged they had been denied promotion and pay increases because of their race; it later grew to cover 1,400 employees.
www.pbs.org /wnet/aaworld/printable_pages/timeline_print.html   (6333 words)

  
 1925 Pottsville Maroons
It also was the first step on the road to the "Stolen Championship." Flushed with victory, the Jacket leaders signed a contract with Frank Schumann, a Philadelphia promoter, wherein the leading eastern team would play a group of former Notre Dame stars at Shibe Park in December.
In both 1920 and 1921 (when the league was called the American Professional Football Association), the championship races ended in dispute, partly because of disagreement as to what games to count and partly because no firm decision had been reached as to when to stop playing.
With the championship based on win-loss percentage (there was no championship playoff scheduled until 1933), in theory, a team could play right on through April, racking up wins until its percentage topped its fellows.
popalis.tripod.com /Championship.htm   (3780 words)

  
 West Hudson: A Cradle of American Soccer
Both were the American branches of huge Scottish companies, the Clark Thread Company of Paisley, Scotland, and Michael Nairn and Company of Kirkcaldy, Scotland, a fact that helped greatly to make Kearny as attractive to immigrants from Scotland as virtually any place in America.
American college students were very enthusiastic about soccer in the early 1870s, particularly at Princeton, Rutgers, Yale and Columbia, but by the mid-1870s, led by Harvard's team, they had begun to move toward rugby, which they quickly transformed into American football.
The fight was sharp and brief but the Americans forced the inflated sphere nearer and nearer to the Canadian goal, until at last J. Chapman of the Kearny Rangers drove it between the posts, tying the score.
www.sover.net /~spectrum/hudson.html   (4295 words)

  
 Soccer Saints | Featuring the greatest futbol, futebol, and soccer stars and players, past and present; World Cup ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Monti made his international debut for the Argentinian national side in the South American Championship of 1927, that wonderful team with Evaristo, Orsi and Monti led Argentina to win the tournament.
At the time of the inaugural World Cup, in 1930, Luis Monti was already considered one of the best centerhalf of South America, he played critical role in the tournament, scoring in the minute 81st the goal that gave Argentina a 1-0 victory against France.
In the semifinal Argentina demolished the United States, Monti scored the first of six goals that gave the South Americans a 6-1 victory.
www.soccersaints.com /leg35.htm   (503 words)

  
 Eagle Eye: US GRAND PRIX 2000
Gurney hooked a lot of us in the '60s with his All-American Eagle and unbridled enthusiasm, while Andretti applied the hammer lock in the '70s by winning a world championship.
Despite all the critics and doubters, we'd done it,'' said Gurney, whose victory was the first by an American in an American-built car since Jimmy Murphy won the 1921 French GP in a Duesenberg.
To this day, Dan is regarded as the best to never win the title (he was second in 1961), but it had more to do with mechanical failure and bad car choices than his ability.
www.allamericanracers.com /gurney_grand-prix/dan_mario-f1.html   (1074 words)

  
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It may be that the old North Midland is melding in with Northern, and the South Midland is becoming simply Midland--but it is clearly distinctive from North and South.
Bonnie Briggs The University of Memphis In the recording of an African American born circa 1855-1860, I have the expression "one man a-riding tole mule" (tow mule?).
At 01:26 AM 4/25/98 +0200, you wrote: In the recording of an African American born circa 1855-1860, I have the expression "one man a-riding tole mule" (tow mule?).
www.americandialect.org /americandialectarchives/april98.html   (17166 words)

  
 Eagle Eye: The Eagle Gurney-Weslake F1 Effort
By 1967, no American driver/car combination had won a Grand Prix since 1921 and no American driver had ever done it with his own construction.
It also had a high top speed for a limited amount of horsepower and was, in fact, on the cutting edge of the existing technology of the day.
On a wet foggy Nuerburgring pit lane 1968: A pensive and lonely Dan Gurney is reluctantly walking away from the American Eagle F1 program into a new future, which would bring him great success in the decades to come as a race car manufacturer, team owner and manager.
www.allamericanracers.com /gurney_grand-prix/eagle_f1-story.html   (2529 words)

  
 World Golf Championships-American Express Championship - World Golf Championships
When the City and County of San Francisco first proposed building a golf course in the southwest corner of town, the major league home run record was 59, set in 1921 by a young Yankee outfielder named Babe Ruth.
Francis Ouimet, an unknown amateur from Boston, may have scored a tremendous victory over British professionals Harry Vardon and Ted Ray in the 1913 U.S. Open, but the Professional Golfers Association of America was only a few years old.
Lake Merced Golf Club had also acquired land in 1922 and was in the process of constructing its course further to the south, just across the county line.
www.worldgolfchampionships.com /news/story/r473/8923956   (1084 words)

  
 AmericanHeritage.com / SAY IT AIN’T SO, JOE!
The grand jury had exposed what soon came to be celebrated as the “Black Sox” scandal—in the public mind, the most bra/en conspiracy in the annals of American sports.
This back-country boy from South Carolina who could neither read nor write was one of the most colorful and idolized players the game has ever known.
Under the management of William “Kid” Gleason, the Sox had romped through the American League that season; with the pennant clinched, the only question seemed to be how quickly they would win the required five-out-of-nine games of which the Series then consisted.
www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/1960/4/1960_4_24.shtml   (5756 words)

  
 American Classics - An Official TransCyberian Express Station Stop - Events
1765 - The Stamp Act is imposed on the American colonies by the British government.
1920 - The passage of the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution guarantees all Americans over the age of 18 the right to vote regardless of their gender.
1921 - The first Miss America is crowned in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
www.americanclassics.homestead.com /index3.html   (2458 words)

  
 Brazilian Calendar - The Republic of Brazil
They move to the south in seek of support, but President Floriano Peixoto aquires new ships and puts down the revolt in March of 1894.
The mystic Antônio Conselheiro and his 25,000 followers defeated three military expeditions sent by the state of Bahia, but are completely wiped out by an army of 5,000 soldiers sent by President Prudente de Moraes.
This is perhaps the earliest fusion of American jazz with Brazilian music, and predates Jazz Samba by nearly a decade.
www.southamericanway.com /calendar/republic.html   (1276 words)

  
 NOTRE DAME FIGHTING IRISH, The Official Athletic Site
After the team arrived back in South Bend, he posed the four players, dressed in their uniforms, on the backs of four horses from a livery stable in town.
After that win over Army, Notre Dame's third straight victory of the young season, the Irish were rarely threatened the rest of the year.
Crowley, who came to Notre Dame in 1921 from Green Bay, Wis., stood 5-11 and weighed 162 pounds.
und.cstv.com /trads/horse.html   (755 words)

  
 South End Zone: Packers All-Time Season Results
1970: The American Football League and the National Football League merged to form the American and National conferences of the National Football League with three geographic divisions each (Eastern, Central and Western).
As such, the league was realigned, giving each conference four divisions: North, South, East and West.
The South End Zone is not affiliated with the NFL or any NFL team.
www.southendzone.com /seasons   (594 words)

  
 Duluth Brewing & Malting   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
They never celebrated a championship, but you can bet they drank Moose Beer after the game.
The name "Kaiser" applied to an American beer was not popular, and Meeske and company officials did not want their beer to be associated with the German leader.
Joe Hartel, brewmaster at Northern Brewing Company, admitted, "Women were why we brewed our beer the way we did." The market was demanding a lighter beer and the use of adjuncts was becoming more prevalent in the industry.
www.americanbreweriana.org /history/duluth.htm   (3614 words)

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