Word: conne
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...HAVEN, CONN., June 3. - A storm this afternoon on prevented the final match in the tennis tournament for the New England championship between Howland and Chace. After the rain a court was scraped and play began. It was a battle royal. Howland smashed well at the net and worked the cross-court to advantage. Chace was steady and used a beautiful Lawford. Howland missed easy returns, but played an aggressive game. Chace won the first set, 6-4. He started in to win the next and had the score 3-1, when Howland rallied. Howland took five straight games...
...HAVEN, CONN., May 23. - The Yale campus was crowded this afternoon with spectators and students to witness the annual "slapping" of the lucky candidates for elections to the senior societies. Each present member of the societies wended his way through the crowd, found the candidate he sought and tapped him on the back, as the crowd cheered for the successful...
Skull and Bones - A. P. Stokes, Jr., New York; M. C. D. McKee, Washington; Maitland Griggs, Hartford; Wm. M. Beard, Poughkeepsie; Ward Cheney, South Manchester, Conn.; Alexander Brown, Philadelphia; Samuel Thorne, New York; J. H. DeSibour, Washington; Edward L. Trudeau, Saranac Lake, N. Y.; R. B. Treadway, Sioux City, Iowa; F. A. Weyerbauser, St. Paul; W. R. Smith, New York; Brinkerhoff Thorne, New York; James Neale, Kittanning, Pa., and W. R. Cross, New York...
...HAVEN, CONN., May 28. - The Yale track athletic team left this afternoon for New York, where it will compete in the annual intercollegiate games at the Berkeley Oval tomorrow. The team is in excellent condition. Richards, the sprinter, is in even better shape than last week at Cambridge and Captain Hickok is likely to make a world's record in the hammer throw. Yale expects to secure 40 points, which should win first place...
...HAVEN, CONN., May 22. - George Townsend Adee, president of the Yale Navy, has just returned from New London, where he made final preparations for the reception of the Yale crew while there for the annual Harvard-Yale boat race. He has secured for the crew the same quarters as for several years at Gale's Ferry, where the Yale 'varsity will go on June 1. Mr. Adee consulted with the New London Board of Trade relative to the arrangements for the race. Several changes in the method of allowing vessels to watch the race on the river will be made...