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...most important event of the season was the international tournament at Longwood early in August, between the English and the American associations for the Davis challenge cup. This was the first international match officially recognized. The conditions of the tournament provided that the cup should go to the team winning three out of five matches, one of which should be in doubles. The tournament resulted in a complete victory for the American team in three straight matches. In the singles Whitman defeated Gore in consecutive sets, 6-1, 6-3, 6-2, and Davis defeated Black...
...school-boys rigged a new shell and rowed a very plucky race in the intermediate event. In the novice singles H. G. Hart '01 upset about a quarter of a mile from the finish and it was some time before the "Veritas" could reach...
With the Metropolitan regatta but a few days away, the club crews and singles which are to enter are rounding into form. The first Newell suffered materially by many of its men stopping work after the last race, so that it will enter the intermediate event where it will meet the Weld intermediate and the Shawmut Boat Club. The Weld senior, on the other hand, has been strengthened by a number of new men, two of them University oars. Yesterday it was seated in the 1902 Freshman boat and covered the course in only fair time on account...
...graded crews are now rowing from the Newell club, one of which will be entered in the junior event of the M. A. R. A. regatta and the other in the intermediate or senior class. The first crew is rowing in much the same order as last week. The second was formed only yesterday...
...three interclub races were rowed under favorable conditions on Tuesday. The senior Newell won by two lengths in 9m. 26s; the intermediate Newell by two length in 9m. 20s.; the Weld juniors by three lengths in 10m. 6s. The easy superiority of the winners in each event made the races the least exciting of those that have been rowed this season. The next race for which the crews will train is the Metropolitan Regatta on June...