Word: courting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...committee which now begins to sit like a high court of chancery, and issue injunctions against every department of athletics, now asserts on the argument of the Advisory Committee of the graduates, that Mr. Bancroft cannot be had as coach for the crew...
...usual crowd of admiring spectators, and pointed it with great care so as to include, as I thought, my "subject." But as is often the case, a little care is worse than none. I had arranged everything to include the server as the (of course) served from one court but I took the picture while she was serving from the other. On developing the plate, I found the striker out with both hands on his knees, ready for the ball which was to come from an invisible server. Such accidents are common. I once tried to take a horse...
...would remind the officers of the Tennis Association of the fact that the association has already once been deprived of the use of what is now the best court we have, that back of College House, and that the use of it was finally granted again, only on condition that there should be no further complaint from neighbors. New it was only through the kindness and forethought of Mr. Eveleth, one of the college employees, that such complaint was prevented last Saturday, and if the complaint had been made, we should have lost the use of the court. It seems...
Second on the list, and also in a class by himself, we must place H. F. Lawford, the great exponent of back court play. The game owes much to the consistent manner in which Mr. Lawford has argued, and, what is far better, demonstrated, that as good play can be shown from the base line as by the volleyers, Driving the ball hard and low, and placing it with unerring judgment, Mr. Lawford has proved beyond fear of contradiction that it is possible to completely defeat the wily schemes of the "man at the net." E. Renshaw...
...party of 200 students in Toronto, Canada, returning home late one evening last week singing songs, and raising a racket generally, was broken up by the police. One student, the son of a prominent member of the Dominion government, was given his choice by the court next day of paying a fine, together with costs, or of making a 30 days' sojourn in jail...