Word: match
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...MATCH A.Greene...
...cricket match between a Sidney eleven and eighteen of Spaulding's base ball players at Sidney on Dec. 18, A. Gregory, for the Australians "took ten wickets with slow, very slow breaking balls" much to the surprise of the visitors...
...plan proposed a few days ago by the executive committee of the Tennis Association, for the reservation of four courts on Jarvis field to be used by the sixteen best players of the college in a league match, deserves to be adopted. While this plan would subtract from general use a rather large proportion of the good courts, the loss would be more than counterbalanced by the advantages gained, and especially the stimulus to better play. It will become an object not only to win future tournaments, but to make a creditable showing in them; and thus many...
GENTLEMEN:- We wish, in behalf of the Harvard University Cricket Club, to challenge Princeton University to play a match game of cricket next spring at Princeton. If Princeton accepts, the date can be arranged later. Hoping we shall soon have a favorable reply, we are Yours very truly...
Resolved, That for the promotion of good tennis playing, priority of right in the use of four tennis courts on Jarvis Field be given, after April 1st, to sixteen members of the University. who shall play a league match, or series, of singles for the best three in five sets; That the selection of such persons be made by the executive committee with respect only to merits as tennis players; That the right be reserved only for the purpose of playing such a series; That the Association do not contribute for the prizes, unless the selected players...