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...First round of doubles.--R. W. Morgan '10 and C. deRham '10 defeated H. P. Burt 2L. and C. W. Rice...
...tennis matches are scheduled for today. Those scheduled for yesterday, the third round of the singles and the first round of the doubles tournaments, will be played on Monday afternoon, though if the individual contestants prefer, they may be played at any previous time...
...importance of winning the first game of the season is emphasized for the Freshman football team by the fact that today's game marks also the beginning of four years of class activity, in which athletics will have first place. Every class wishes to be represented by winning teams, able always to play the game a little better than their opponents. It is an ideal worth striving for, but it demands self-sacrifice from the class as individuals in the support of teams by which the class as a whole is represented...
During the past week there has been a great stride in the development of the three University crews, especially in the work of the first eight, during the latter half of the week. The men who changed positions in the early part of last week have become accustomed to their new seats and the eight as a whole is very much better together. On Wednesday all three eights went down-stream and and on the return row the work of the University crew was good. Thursday's row brought even better results and the eight showed the best form...
Yesterday's rowing completed the first week's practice of the dormitory crews. Naturally there was much confusion over the orders of the crews and the hours of rowing during the first part of the week, but affairs are in a much more settled condition by now. From the point of view of numbers, this year's dormitory rowing should be very successful, as there are 144 men on the river every day, comprising sixteen eights as opposed to the twelve crews in the bumping races last year. A plan has been formulated by which men not in any dormitory...