Word: game
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...management has scheduled only one practice game. However, a number of teams have signified their desire to play, and games will undoubtedly be arranged in the near future...
...entered for the whist tournament of the Chess and Whist Club, which will begin this evening. The following rules have been adopted to govern the playing: All contestants will meet this evening at 7 o'clock in the rooms of the club. Matches will consist of the best three games out of five, and seven points will constitute a game. The results of the games must be left with Mr. O. Everett, 16 Little's. The players have been divided into two sections. In the first round each pair will play every other pair in their section. The two couples...
...gratifying to find that cricket is steadily increasing its hold on the youth of the United States. Harvard University seems to be doing good work just now in its efforts to develop the game by its permanent introduction into the collegiate institutions of America. At the first meeting of the University Cricket Club, held lately, the management reported that they had tried to arrange a match for Monday, Oct. 11, between Fifteen of the University and the Gentlemen of Ireland. Unfortunately, though, owing to the fact that they had to sail from New York on the following Wednesday, the Irishmen...
...cricket club has been formed at Bryn Mawr College, a college similar to Vassar. It has a large and active membership, as the girls take great interest in the game...
...cablegram announces that Dr. C. F. P. Bancroft, principal of the Phillips Andover Academy, who is traveling in Egypt and the Holy Land this year, has arrived at Cairo on his way down the Nile. He is said to have been present at the baseball game between the Chicagos and the All-Americans, played near the pyramids...