Word: defeating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Though the grapplers started their season with three defeats, Coach W. E. Lewis declares that they have improved considerably and concedes them better than a fifty-fifty chance to defeat the schoolboys. Andover has lost to the Tufts, Yale, and M. I. T. Freshmen...
...only in the foils, the first-year fencers have lost one match out of three starts. In last Saturday's match against the Brunswick High School aggregation, the sabre and epee as well as the foils were contested, and the Crimson Freshmen went down to a 13 to 4 defeat at the hands of the schoolboys. This setback was mainly the result of the inexperience of the 1932 sabre and epee contestants. The foilsmen succeeded in holding their own to fair advantage...
...last minute, Cleveland, remembering their defeat by Yale, Friday night, decided not to spot the visitors four points handicap, but to start from scratch. The western riders scored two goals in the first chukker, thus putting themselves in the lead, but five goals for Harvard in the next period, gave the visitors a lead that was never overcome. G. O. Clark '31 starred for the Crimson malletmen, by scoring 11 goals, while Newcomet, of the Cleveland team, made 7. HARVARD CLEVELAND G. O. Clark, No. 1 No. 1, Greenfield Gerry, No. 2 No. 2, Newcomet F. A. Clark...
Tennis elders did not waste much time shaking their heads over the defeat of William Tatem Tilden II in straight sets in the finals of the Brooklyn Heights indoor invitation tennis tournament last week, his first competition since his reinstatement as an amateur. Instead, all eyes were on his conqueror, John Van Ryn, now definitely a Davis Cup hope. Van Ryn, who ranks sixth in the land, not only defeated No. 1 Tilden but also No. 2 Francis T. Hunter in the course of the week...
Back from Belgium to the U. S. rolled the world's 18.2 balkline billiard championship. Jake Schaefer of Chicago, champion before and son-of-a-champion, beat Welker Cochran of Hollywood in the deciding match, 400 to 328. Both finalists had first to defeat Kinrey Matsuyama, adroit "Japanese Molecule" (TIME, Feb. 18). Several players beat 1928 Champion Edward Horemans...