Word: contesting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...spite of the unfavorable weather yesterday, the tournament was completed before four o'clock. In the singles Lee beat Federhen, 6-4, 6-3, and in the finals was beaten by Philip Sears after a brilliant contest, 6-2, 6-3, 7-5. In the last round of the doubles, the Sears brothers beat Kuhn and Keep, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4. Philip Sears is the college champion in singles, and he and his brother hold the championship in doubles. The tournament was a great contrast to last year's, the playing being spirited throughout and the whole affair...
...tried. Next week a series of matches will be opened, probably as follows: 1st, open to all; 2nd, open only to those who have not won a prize; 3rd, open only to freshmen. All freshmen who shoot should be present to-day, that a team may be selected to contest in the class matches to be held this fall. Those desirous of joining can do so at the grounds. Cars leave the square...
...Polo Club as well as our other athletic organizations, made last year a year of victory. In the contest at Newport in the summer, the president and captain of the club, Belmont, '86 and Bird, Winthrop, and French made up the team that won the championship of America. The thorough knowledge which Belmont and Bird showed of each other's play was a very noticeable feature of this contest, and their perfect co-operation was like a beautifully organized piece of subtle machinery. It was the same superiority which Princeton has shown in foot-ball by her systematic passing...
...popular, a short account of its history will prove interesting. The inventor of the game was Major Walter Wingfield, of Her Majesty's Body Guard, and he introduced it in 1874 under the name of "Spharistike." The first match ever played was in Denbighshire, England, and the first public contest took place in 1875. The game was popular from the start. The trade offered Major Wingfield a royalty of $1.25 a set on his invention, which would have yielded him by this time over $1,000,000. He declined the offer, however, and has never realized anything from the game...
Yale freshmen have no right to sit on the Chapel street fence except as a reward for beating the Harvard freshmen in an athletic contest. It is a pleasant fence, commanding an unhindered view of one of the fairest and most delightfully frequented thoroughfares in New Haven, and offers to the members of the higher classes many of the advantages of a well-situated club house. The freshmen, the other day, after beating the sophomores by four to three at a game of base-ball, raided this fence and sat upon it, heedless of the indefensible unusualness...