Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jaialai). None of the modern equipment was necessary. The players knocked a ball with their hands over a mound of earth, or some such obstacle, and settled their debts on the spot. It is barely possible that desperate matches are played on the Jarvis courts for sodas at the corner drug store, but nothing so huge as the 15 sous game is ever heard of. These systematic days, if they have left the old scoring system untouched, have at least spread the theory of simple arithmetic among tennis players. Few can be found who would not shy at a game...
Chapin ran the prettiest race of the day in the mile. Starting with a 30-yard handicap he caught Coburn on the last corner and forced ahead at the tape by four yards. Coburn was second, while Cutcheon, running from scratch, finished third in four minutes, 29 3-5 seconds, the best time that any man in the Freshman or University squads, excepting Burke, has done in the mile this year...
...yard dash C. C. Colt led the field for the first half of the race. At the corner Jones, who started with a 20-yard handicap, passed him and came in a scant yard before Robb. Smith finished third. The time was 50 seconds...
Since first makng this point we have heard no objection raised, and the considerable advantages of this plan, from the undergraduate point of view, at least, make ir advisable with the Finals around the corner, to bring it up again...
...ahead of Curtis. Coach Brigham put Newhall and McCarthy, his two mainstays in the half-mile excluding Burke, through a 660-yard race, Newhall led until the final straightaway when McCarthy started sprinting and finally finished three yards ahead. In the mile trials Lamont overtook Coolidge on the last corner, the latter finishing second with Sherburne coming in close on his heel for third place...