Word: harada
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...semi-final round of the University doubles tournament played yesterday afternoon at the Divinity Courts, the favorites, Briggs and Harada, and Wheeler and Davies won their matches, although each encounter went to four sets. Wheeler and Davies met last year's Freshman stars, Gordon and Lenhart, in a preliminary engagement to gain their position in the semi-final bracket...
...second set went in much the same manner as the first. Each player held his service for the first two games. A double fault by Briggs gave Harada the third game, and he captured the fourth as well...
...started a brilliant rally. By coming in to the net and angling for the corners, he succeeded in taking the next two games, but his efforts seemed to tire him, and he dropped the following two games. With the score 5-3, each player kept his own service, giving Harada...
...final set, Harada began playing hard tennis. The first two games he ran through without losing a point. In the third, however, Briggs started a brief rally, and succeeded in piling up a 40-love advantage, but the Japanese player pulled himself out of the hole with little difficulty, and then captured the next three games in short order...
...Harada and Briggs, after their rivalry in the singles tournament yesterday, will join forces today and compete in the second semi-final match with Paul and Raymond Kunkel. The former match will take place at 2.15 o'clock and the other at 2 o'clock. The finals will be placed off tomorrow at 2 o'clock...