Word: captains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Phillips Finlay '31 and Captain J. W. Filoons '29 turned in the best individual cards in the University match, both getting 74. The Exeter team, which is undefeated this season, lost only one match...
...Freshman tennis team kept their slate clean and ended up their season by a close victory over the Eli netmen, 5 matches to 4. Practically all of the contests were close, four of them going to three sets, the comeback of Captain D. M. Frame '32 and Edward Orlandini '32 to capture the first doubles match from Harte and Warner of Yale, 1-6, 6-4, 6-5, exhibiting especially brilliant playing. The matches were played on the Divinity Courts...
Dividing the singles and taking two out of three doubles matches, the Harvard University tennis team defeated the Yale netmen at New Haven Saturday by the narrow margin of 5 to 4. It was the twelfth consecutive victory for Captain B. H. Whitbeck's team, but it was earned only after some intensive struggles with the Blue racquet wielders...
Timely hitting made up for Harvard miscues afield as the University team sent Hollstrom, Hanoverian mound ace, home with his first defeat of the season. Howard Whitmore '29, in the box for the Crimson, remained cool under fire, allowing only eight scattered blows. Two circuit clouts, by Captain G. E. Donaghy '29 and Stokes Indian first sacker respectively, furnished the fire works as the opposing hurlers fought out a closely-contested pitcher's duel...
However, on the basis of past performances, Yale has the better team. Headed by Captain Brandenburg who is credited with a discus throw of 15 feet further than the best throw of T. H. Alcock '29, the Eli squad presents an imposing array of talent; Kieselhorst and Engle in the runs, Connor and O'Gorman in the weight events, and Sturdy and Pond in the pole vault, are the outstanding luminaries of the team, and have an excellent chance of hanging up some dual records in their particular events...