Word: match
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...best match in the singles was between Lee and Jennings. Lee took the first set easily. In the second set Jennings braced up a good deal; he took the first game, Then Lee by hard drives took the next three games. The fifth and sixth games went to Jennings by placing and passing. Lee won the next game; then Jennings took the eighth and ninth. The tenth game went to Lee and the score stood 5 all. Lee then played a strong game and won the next two games and set. The score in the second set by games...
Hale and Stetson played a close match with Kingsley and Wildes. In the first set the score stood 5-3, vantage in Kingsley and Wildes' favor, but Hale by a brilliant play made the score deuce and finally won the game. The set, however, went to Kingsley and Wildes, 8-6. In the second set Kings ley and Wildes had the sun on their backs and won easily...
...singles, Manchester defeated J. Codman, 6-0, 6-3; Tallant defeated A. M. Chase, 6-2, 6-3. The match between Lee and Sturgis resulted in Lee's favor. Sturgis by good placing won the first two games; then Lee won six games straight and the set, owing a greal deal to errors by Sturg...
...first five games both by good back hand strokes and by poor playing on Sturgis' part. Then Sturgis braced up, and by good Lawford strokes won the next four games. The score now stood 5-4 in Lee's favor. The next game and the set and match then went to Lee. Jennings defeated Manchester in the second round, 6-4, 6-2, Jennings' steady playing proving superior to Manchester's brilliant, but erratic game...
...doubles only two matches were played, Orcutt and Potter defeating Brown and Sturgis, 6-4, 6-8, 10-8, and Lee and Tallant defeating Howard and Beake, 6-1, 6-1. The match between Orcutt and Potter and Brown and Sturgis was the best played so far. Orcutt and Potter took the first set; then Brown and Sturgis won the second set. In the third, Brown and Sturgis had 5-1, 5-3. 40-love, and 8-7 at different times; but Orcutt and Potter, by playing well up to the net and placing ing the balls to the left...