Word: farnham
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Freshman tennis team will meet the Tufts '24 team today at 3.00 at Divinity Courts. C. W. Farnham Jr., winner of the 1920 Interscholastics, has been appointed acting captain, and is expected to win his matches. K. S. Plaffman, old Andover star, and who received 144th place in the last National Ranking, are also expected to do good work. The '24 team will consist of the following men: E. K. Davis, C. W. Farnham Jr., K. S. Plaffman, E. St. R. Reynal, L. H. Rouillon, D. Stralen...
...University second Tennis team will oppose the Brooline High School Tennis team at the Divinity Courts at 4 o'clock today. The singles men will play in the following order: Captain Wilson Palmer '23, G. C. Guild '23, and J. D. Farnham '23; the doubles teams will be Captain Palmer and L. C. Hill '22, and M. W. Bradbyer '22 and Channing Wakefield '22. The University Tennis team will conduct a tournament to begin Friday, April 29, open to members of the three upper classes who are not on the squad. Entry books are posted in Leavitt and Peirce...
Evenly matched with Pfaffman is Farnham, who, as Captain of the Exeter team last year, made a name for himself as a schoolboy player. Farnham also won the Interscholastics at Cambridge last spring; and during the summer distinguished himself in several tournaments in the Middle West. He has a rather slow serve and stroke, but his unvarying steadiness offsets his lack of speed...
...Dubois, captain of last season's Milton team, is another preparatory school leader, counted upon as a sure point winner for the Freshmen. Like Farnham, Dubois is a steady, sure player and at times has shown brilliant streaks in every department of the game...
...speedy, hard type, appears the most promising. He is exceptionally fast on his feet and difficult to evade at the net; and he showed both of these qualities last spring in the Interscholastics when he reached the semi-finals only to be put out of the running by Farnham...