Word: championships
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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PHILADELPHIA, March 23.- Captain Orton, of the University of Pennsylvania track team, today, received a letter from Captain Sheldon of Yale in which the latter accepted Pennsylvania's invitation to compete in the one and five mile championship relay races which are to be held at Franklin Field, April...
...semi-finals and finish of the Newton indoor tennis tournament for the indoor championship of the United States were played Saturday afternoon and evening, and were the occasion of much good tennis. Both matches in the semifinals were well contested, E. Sheafe beating E. R. Marvin '99, 2-6, 6-5, 6-1, and R. C. Thomas '96, defeating A. Codman '96, 6-4, 3-6, 6-2. In the finals between Sheafe and Thomas, at one time it looked as if Sheafe would win in the three straight sets, but Thomas braced up in the third and fourth sets...
Peck and Morrill yesterday defeated Thwaits and Whitmore in the finals of the whist, tournament by a score of 8 to 6. The winners now play Booth and Dennison for the championship and have already won one game. The pair winning the best three out of five games will win the championship...
PHILADELPHIA, March 19.- The Columbian University, of Washington, D. C., and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have sent entries for Pennsylvania's race meeting of April 25. This will be the first appearance of the "Techs" in Philadelphia, they having competed in New England almost exclusively. They now hold the championship of the New England Intercollegiate A. A. and will undoubtedly be represented by a strong team...
...tournament is soon to be held at the Fencing Club to select a third member for the team that is to compete for the junior team championship in New York the first week in May. Every team in this championship contest must be made up of men who have never won medals in public competition, and, as A. G. Thacher '97 is a medal man, some one must be chosen to take his place with J. P. Parker '96 and J. E. Hoffman '96. This same man will probably be substitute for the intercollegiate team also...