Word: lawn
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Intercollegiate Lawn Tennis Association was formed in 1883, and delegates met at Hartford from Amherst, Brown, and Trinity colleges. When the constitution was formed, Yale was admitted, and invitations to join sent to Harvard and Williams. The first championship tournament was held Oct. 9, 1883, at Hartford. The winners were: In singles, H. A. Taylor, '86, Harvard; second place, L. Thorne, '85. S., Yale. In doubles, Taylor and Presbrey, of Harvard were winners, with Thorne and Knapp, Yale, second. In 1884, Princeton and Lehigh were admitted to the association. The winners in '84 were: Singles, W. P. Knapp, '86, Yale...
...first tournament of the association, played in 1885 on the New Haven Lawn Club grounds, the winners were: Singles, W. P. Knapp, Yale; second, G. M. Brinley, Trinity. In doubles: Knapp and Shipman of Yale. In 1886, Columbia was admitted. In 1887, P. S. Sears, Harvard, took first place in the singles, with O. S. Campbell, Columbia, second. In doubles, first, P. Sears and Shaw, Harvard; second, Hall and Campbell, Columbia. In '88, Sears won, with Campbell second; and Campbell and Hall won the doubles, with Sears and Shaw second. In 1889, R. P. Huntington, Yale, won first place; while...
...annual tournament will be held on the grounds of the New Haven Lawn Club, beginning this morning and continuing the remainder of the week. O. S. Campbell of Columbia and R. P. Huntington of Yale have been graduated, and are, therefore, dropped from incollegiate contests...
...representatives of the Harvard Lawn Tennis Association left last night for New Haven where the intercollegiate tournament will be held this week. The good wishes of the whole University go with them. It was the victory in tennis a year ago which began the remarkable series of Harvard athletic triumphs last year, and we trust that this year may begin as auspiciously...
...JAGGAR, Sec.HARVARD LAWN TENNIS ASSOCIATION. - The annual fall tournament for the championship of the college will begin on Monday, October 19. The events will be singles and doubles, and all men must take part who expect to be candidates for either tennis league next spring. A blue book will be found at Leavitt & Pierce's, where the prizes will be put on exhibition...