Word: lose
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...sets will be allowed. Matches must be played on the days scheduled or be defaulted. In case of rain, however, they will be played on the following day. Contestants, unless by special agreement, must play at the exact time scheduled, and a side more than thirty minutes late will lose its match by default...
...Matches must be played on the day scheduled, or else defaulted, but in case of rain the matches will be played on the day following. Contestants, unless by special agreement, must play at the exact time scheduled, and if either contestant is more than thirty minutes late he will lose the match by default...
...thus furnishing a good part of the necessary, machinery for turning out organized cheering. Without these traditional features of a Yale game, however, much of the incentive for such cheering will be absent. Is not the experiment of omitting these features worth trying? The team will them win or lose on its own merits. And should it lose, I am sure lack of support will not be the cause. Harvard men hither to have never needed incentive to show their confidence in the teams that are playing for Harvard's honor, nor will they need any on Thursday. UNDERGRADUATE...
...perfunctory punctuation of proceedings on the field by mechanical manifestations of approval or disapproval, and the risk that occasionally such well-meaning hordes of heelers, with their hectic cheers exceeding all bounds of legitimate applause, may drift into intentional preparations to secure victory by vociferation,--a poor way to lose the contest, to be sure, but a worse way to win it. This is the real mischief of the business,--not in the act itself, but in the exaggeration and ill-directed utilization. Such occurrences as the explosive demonstrations by yachts aligned upon the last mile of boat races, demonstrations...
...will be for the best two out of three sets, and in the finals for the best three out of five. Deuce and advantage sets are optional. Matches must be played on the day scheduled or defaulted. In case one contestant is more than thirty minutes late he will lose by default...