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...Hovey, L. S. and R. D. Wrenn, '95, and Geo. F. Brown, Jr., '92, and W. D. Orcutt, '92, were chosen to represent Harvard in the doubles in the intercollegiate tournament which will be held during the week of Oct. 13th on the grounds of the New Haven Lawn Club. The men chosen for the singles were Hovey, Wrenn '95, and either Brown or Orcutt to be decided by a match...
...ninth annual tournament of the Intercollegiate Lawn Tennis Association will be held in New Haven as before, on the grounds of the New Haven Lawn Tennis Club. It will last during the week commencing October 13. Three men will be entered in the singles, and two teams in the doubles, from each college. Hovey L. S., will go as one of the three from Harvard, while the other two will be chosen from Wrenn '95, Geo. Brown '92, and Orcutt '92. The teams in doubles will be chosen from these men also...
That veteran tennis player, Dr. James Dwight, contributes a brief article on "Lawn Tennis in New England" in which all college tennis players will take a lively interest. Dr. Dwight describes the first game of tennis played in New England (in 1875 at Nahant), when the enthusiasm of Dr. Dwight and his opponent for the game was so great that rainy afternoons they would play in rubber boots and coats rather than lose a day, and thence traces the history of the game up to the present year...
...semi-finals and the finals in the interscholastic lawn tennis tournament were played off yesterday morning and were by far the most interesting matches as well as the best played of the tournament...
...first Interscholastic Tournament of the Harvard Lawn Tennis Association was held Saturday, and proved a great success. It was originally intended to play off all the matches on Saturday but the men were too much exhausted to complete the semi-finals, and the remaining semi-final match, and the finals will be played this morning. At 10 a. m., G. P. Herrick, Berkeley School, will play R. W. Coues, Brown and Nichols. Herrick is looked upon as the winner, and in that case he will meet R. Wrenn, Cambridge Latin. Both men are playing good tennis and a close match...