Word: contest
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...last set of the tennis tournament, R. D. Brown beat Q. A. Shaw, two sets to one, 1-6, 6-4, 6-2, thereby winning second place. Harvard will be represented at the intercollegiate contest by Sears and Brown in Singles, and Sears and Shaw, and Tailer and Chase in the doubles...
Next Monday the annual Intercollegiate tennis tournament takes place at New Haven. Harvard has always sent good men to contend for the championship of the colleges, and will, we think, make as good a fight this fall as in former years. Although the contest takes place in New Haven where our rivals from Yale and Trinity will have the encouragement that suppositories afford, still we have faith in the men the tennis association send out, and hope that the victory of last year may be repeated this fall...
...first game in which the Princeton eleven has taken part this year was with Lehigh on the University grounds last Saturday. The Lehigh men were kept well on the defensive by the sharp and aggressive playing of their opponents. The contest was one-sided, although Lehigh at times by good passing of the ball when tackled gained much on Princeton. As it was the first game of the season, half-hour halves were played. The final score was, Princeton, 76; Lehigh...
...continuation of the preliminary contest to select the players who are to go to New Haven October 8 to represent Harvard in the struggle for the intercollegiate team championship tookplace yesterday afternoon on Jarvis field. The day was so raw that none of the men played at their best, and the wind blowing directly across the court hindered to some degree careful placing. In the singles H. Tallant beat Tailer 6-4, 7-5. Tallant accordingly meets Sears for first place...
...preliminary contest to select the players who are to go to New Haven to represent Harvard in the contest for the intercollegiate lawn tennis championship, which takes place on October 8, took place yesterday on the Beck Hall courts. P. S. Sears beat R. D. Brown 9-7, 8-6, and H. Tallant beat Q. A. Shaw in two sets. Tailer will play Tallant at two o'clock today and the winner will probably play Sears...