Word: hooper
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...HOOPER...
...Sears, M. S., andMr. H. A. Taylor, '86, played a practice game of lawn tennis against Mr. Hooper and Dr. Dwight at Longwood, Saturday, preparatory to the intercollegiate tournament at Hartford on Tuesday...
...tennis tournament at Longwood yesterday the finals in doubles were won by Sears and Dwight, who defeated Hooper and Dodd by three sets to one. 1n the single contest Dwight first beat Presbrey 6-1, 6-2, and then beat Wheelwright 6 2, 6-2. Taylor was beaten by young Shaw two straight sets 6-5, 6-5. The finals in the singles will be played today by Dr. Dwight and Shaw. If Shaw wins, Taylor Dwight and one or two others will play for second prize, If Dwight wins. Shaw, Wheelwright, Presbrey and one other will play. The second...
...conceded by the majority that in doubles his play was equal to if not better than Taylor's. However, the undergraduates were no match for the champions, who won two straight sets, 6-5, 6-0. The finals in doubles will be played by Sears and Dwight, vs. Hooper and Dodd. In singles Peirson, '85, was beaten by E. K. Butler, '83, who in turn was defeated by Wheelwright '85. Taylor had a very close shave in playing with Philip Sears, a young brother of the champion, who won the first set and gained 5 and 4 games on each...
...this last movement Hooker was never able to give good reasons, for he had crossed the river at what was the most advantageous place for an attack, and now retired again when opposed by a force less than half his own. The losses on both sides had been heavy. Hooper and Sedgwick had lost in killed, wounded and missing over 17,000 men, and Lee had, by his own figures, probably underestimated, 12,000. This ended a movement of which the first part was one of the best executed moves in the history of war, but which closed...