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During the week the attention of the undergraduates has been centered chiefly on the intercollegiate tennis tournament at the Lawn Club. The defeat of the university's representatives and the consequent loss of the intercollegiate cup were a great disappointment here. Harvard by her victory has won the cup permanently, which was first played for in 1889. The following officers of the Intercollegiate Association have been elected: Thompson of Princeton, president; Ware of Harvard, vice-president; Dodge of Yale, secretary and treasurer...
...Yale men had some hopes for another trial next year, should Driscoll defeat Whitman; but the Georgetown player, who took the lead at the start, fell off after winning two games, as he was plainly out of form and did not play with the same skill that signalized his game against Ware yesterday...
Harvard's representatives in the tennis tournament won all their matches on Tuesday as did also the Yale men. The surprise of the first round was the defeat of Budlong of Brown by Driscoll of Georgetown...
...chief reason for Harvard's defeat was the ragged fielding which was noticeable throughout the game, and which was plainly caused by nervousness. Most of the errors were made on difficult plays, but several were quite inexcusable and proved very costly. In batting Harvard was distinctly superior to Princeton, but was unfortunate in not bunching hits at the right time. Clarkson deserves a great deal of credit for his excellent work with the stick. Twice he came to bat with a man on third base, and each time he brought in a run, beside making a third hit, which...
Chagrined and disappointed as we necessarily feel over our defeat by Princeton we still feel that our nine deserves commendation for its season's work. During the first few weeks of practice it looked as if it would be impossible to form even a fairly good team, yet today we have one of the very strongest teams in the field, and the strongest that Harvard has had for the last three years. The improvement in the nine during the season has been wonderfully rapid, and Captain Dean and those who have helped him deserve great credit for their work...