Word: cricketer
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Concerning athletics at Harvard in the late fifties Mr. Spaulding spoke with enthusiasm of the devotion of the undergraduates to all kinds of physical exercises and out-of-door sports. Football, baseball and cricket were played, while boating on the Charles River was a pastime popular with all. There were at Harvard no fewer than 12 boat clubs in those days. One of these, the "Orion," had for its president Charles W. Eliot '53. In early intercollegiate regattas Harvard was usually the winner, but sometimes the prize even then went to Yale. After one of these defeats the officiating clergyman...
...final round of the intercollegiate tennis tournament, played yesterday on the courts of the Merion Cricket Club, Philadelphia, Tilden and Thayer of Pennsylvania defeated Holden and Bundy of Yale in straight sets...
...semi-finals of the intercollegiate tennis tournament, played yesterday on the courts of the Merion Cricket Club, Philadelphia, Tilden and Thayer of Pennsylvania gained an unexpected and brilliant victory over Niles and Dabney, while the Yale men, Holden and Bundy, defeated Gardner and Dana in a close match. N. W. Niles '09 was victorious over A. S. Dabney '09 in the final round of the singles, so that Harvard gains one of the two possible points towards the possession of the intercollegiate trophy...
...result of the fourth round of the twenty-fifth intercollegiate tennis championship matches yesterday on the courts of the Merion Cricket Club, Philadelphia, two Harvard men, Niles and Dabney, and two Pennsylvania men, Tilden and Schmidt, are left to compete in the semi-finals of the singles today. In the first round of the doubles yesterday Niles and Dabney beat Donnell and Aichman of Hobart...
...twenty-fifth intercollegiate tennis championship matches commenced yesterday on the courts of the Merion Cricket Club, Philadelphia. At the completion of the third round there were eight survivors, of whom Harvard had three, Niles, Gardner and Dabney; Yale, two; Pennsylvania, two; and Princeton, one Niles and Gardner, of the Harvard team, each played in two matches, both of which they...