Word: champion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Monday the winner will play an exhibition game with P. S. Sears, the college champion...
...opened right merrily yesterday, when the CRIMSON set the ball rolling, and kept it rolling for nearly three hours. The game was between the "Bessies" and the CRIMSON nine, and so great was the interest in the result that nearly 100 men betook themselves to Jarvis to see the champion nine of last year score its first victory in the present series. The contest was so full of interesting features that it is impossible to record them all. Perhaps what called for most applause was the terrific hitting of the champions, and, next to that, the terrific fielding of their...
Sears, the amateur champion of the world, defeated Pettitt, the professional champion of the world, at Longwood yesterday afternoon, by a score of 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, 7-5. The afternoon was perfect, although cool, and both men seemed to be in good trim. The exhibition was fully up to the high expectations of the spectators. Play after play of wonderful dexterity followed in quick succession, drawing out rounds of applause. The playing was not so close as most of these championship games have been, the score in the vantage set at the last not running higher than...
...Sears will play Tom Petit the champion professional player of the world, this afternoon, at 3 o clock, on the Longwood tennis grounds. It will probably be a very exciting game, and a great number are going over...
...Saturday. The entrance fee will be fifty cents for every player. Cups will be given to the winners in both the singles and the doubles and also to the winners of the class championships. Either turf or clay courts may be used, as the players prefer. The champion of the college, Philip Sears, will be barred, but will play an exhibition game with the winner of the tournament...