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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...match with the Dunbarton Club on Friday was cancelled because of inclement weather, and the following day the team journeyed to Baltimore, where they concluded their southern trip with a defeat at the hands of the Baltimore Country Club team, headed by John Howard, captain of the Princeton tennis team this year. W. W. Ingraham was unable to play in this match, and Captain Pfaffmann occupied the position of first singles. Opposing Howard, he was defeated 6-4, 6-2. In the doubles matches, Palmer Dixon and Alden Briggs defeated John Howard and T. L. Goldsborough in a long gruelling...
...France, and I should like to meet Jusserand [French Ambassador to the U. S.] and tell him that to his 'face." Mr. Kerney added: "He was plainly irritated at the French politicians; none among them, save Loucheur, he felt had told him the truth. Stanley Baldwin's defeat was a good thing, not only for England, but for its effect on Poincare, 'who is a bully', he added...
House of Commons. The Labor Ministry in Parliament takes frequent falls, but it goes on. It suffered defeat, 221 to 212, on the question of a Rent Bill. As a sop to its left wing, the "Clydesiders," the Ministry proposed a clause whereby no tenant could be evicted for nonpayment of rent, provided he could show that he was unable to pay because of unemployment. The Liberals joined the conservatives in denouncing this clause as "Socialism" and "confiscation." The Government would have met defeat at that point, but John R. Clynes filibustered until the House was obliged to adjourn...
...strong Chevy Chase Country Club team will be played on Wednesday afternoon in Washington, D. C. Although the University won this match easily last year by the score of 7-2, this team was responsible for inflicting the sole defeat of the southern trip the previous year. The Dunbarton Club of Washington will be met for the first time on Friday afternoon...
...visitors are appearing on a Harvard schedule for the first time. Their strength is problematical, but they are not rated as very formidable opponents because of their 12 to 1 defeat at the hands of Columbia last Saturday. Their pitcher Outwater received rough treatment from the Morningside Heights batsmen, who found him for 13 hits and nine runs in six innings. Kaiser is the most highly touted of the Seton Hall players. His work at third base was the one bright spot in his team's showing last Saturday...