Word: championships
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...intercollegiate lawn tennis championship trophy, which became the property of the Harvard Lawn Tennis Association at the last intercollegiate tournament, has arrived in Cambridge, and beginning today, will be on exhibition at the CRIMSON office...
...senior eleven has been doing steady work this fall and is now in fairly good condition for the game with '98 on Friday. It is generally considered that '97 has rather the best chance to win this game for the eleven seems to be fully as strong as the championship team of last year, while '98 has not done any remarkable work this season. There is little doubt that the winner of this match can defeat either the Sophomores or the Freshmen...
Saturday afternoon the deciding match in doubles for the college championship was played off before a large audience. Holt and Ward, winners of the fall tournament, beat Ware and Scudder, last year's champions, 6-3, 7-5, 3-6, 1-6, 6-4. Holt and Ward won the first two sets by better net playing, the '99 pair being decidedly out of form. In the next two, however, matters were reversed. Holt and Ward could do nothing against their opponents' sharp volleys, and secured only four games...
...though the games kept going to Ware and Scudder till the score stood 4-1 in their favor. At this point Holt and Ward rallied finely, and, winning point after point by swift drives and well-placed smashes, ran out five straight games, giving them the set, match and championship. The summary...
...Doubles-Championship Round...