Word: handicaped
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...exhibition match was played yesterday afternoon between Lockett '92, the winner of the recent handicap tournament, and Chase '92, who holds the championship of the college. The day was a poor one for tennis as it was intensely hot and too windy for accurate playing. Although Chase gave Lockett fifteen, the play was lifeless throughout the match, and very few of the games were close. The first set was the best, Chase getting the last five games straight, with the score four to one against...
Lockett '92 won the finals in the singles of the handicap tennis tournament by defeating Torrey, Gr. The match was not especially interesting or well played. Lockett played the cooler and more confident game, and had the match well in hand from the start. He played steadily, while Torrey, on the other hand, kept driving the ball out of the court. The score by sets was as follows...
Pillsbury, L. S, and Bailey, L. S. won the finals in the doubles by defeating Cummin '92 and Spaulding '92, who had a handicap of fifteen. The match was poorly played; the score was as follows...
...Jersey Athletic Club games at Bergen Point on Saturday, O. W. Shead '93 won first place in the broad jump, with an actual jump of 21ft. 10 in. This eqals the former Harvard record. T. Richardson '94 was first in the 100 yards with a handicap of six yards; time 10 1-5s. G. F. Brown Jr., '92, won third place from the 3 1-2 yard mark. Brown was pocketed and spiked in the finals, but the foul was not allowed. S. Wells, Jr. '91, came in a close third in the quarter mile from the 12 yard...
Nearly all of the matches yesterday were close, even with the handicaps. In the match between Orcutt and Hurd and Lockett and Hunt, the handicap was too large, but nevertheless the scores were quite large. In the singles Tallant and Barron both won a set and stopped on account of the rain. The match between Earle and Rhoades was very close. Rhoades had one set and five games to two in the second, and Earle made a terrific brace, winning the second and third sets...