Word: cricket
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...prospects for this year's cricket team are just as bright as they have been for the past two years, in which Harvard won the intercollegiate championship. All of last year's team, with the exception of Haughton and Scattergood, and most of the substitutes are back again this fall. To offset the loss of these two players, Towery, captain of the Haverford team, will play for Harvard next spring. There will be no fall practice, but directly after Christmas work will begin in the cage in the Gymnasium. Several of the men have been playing during the summer with...
...Ware '99 won the tennis championship of the State yesterday, on the courts of the Longwood Cricket Club, by defeating H. Ward 1900, 6-3, 4-6, 6-3, 6-1. Neither player was in especially good form. Ward was particularly erratic. His back hand strokes were never sure and a fatal tendency of driving into the net lost him many points. Ware played fairly good tennis, but was inclined to play into his opponent's hands...
...first four rounds of the Longwood Tennis Tournament were played yesterday morning and afternoon at the Cricket Club grounds. In the last round L. E. Ware '99 defeated M. D. Whitman '99 rather easily by the score of 6-4, 6-2. In the other matches McKittrick defeated Warland 4-6, 6-5, 6-2; Read defeated Bradley 6-2, 6-5; Pier '95 defeated Wright 6-2, 6-3. The other Harvard entries were defeated in the earlier rounds...
...fifth annual tennis tournament for the championship of Massachusetts will be played on the grounds of the Longwood Cricket Club on June 17. All players who are residents of Massachusetts are urged to enter in order to make the tournament as representative as possible. The championship is now held by Holcombe Ward 1900, who will be called upon to defend his title against the winner of this tournament...
...Prelude to "The Cricket on the Hearth," Goldmark...