Word: match
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...game between West Point and Wesleyan was very hotly contested and showed the two teams to be pretty evenly matched, the score being 12 to 9 in favor of West Point. The match was a very rough one and was fought...
...finals in the intercollegiate tennis tournament were held this morning and were won by S. G. Thompson of Princeton who defeated J. D. Forbes of Harvard. A five set match was necessary to decide the championship. Forbes took the first set after a hard struggle, but easily succumbed in the next two. He took a strong brace in the fourth set and the last two sets were hotly contested, the result being in doubt until the last point was played...
...liveliest matches of the Intercollegiate Tournament took place this morning. Hooker of Yale, met Thomson of Princeton; Thomson winning after a hard five set match. The two Harvard men, Whitman and Forbes, then met and Forbes won. Whitman was wearied by his recent hard work and fell an easy victim to Forbe's swift drives...
Harvard men kept on winning their matches in the intercollegiate tennis tournament this morning. The play consisted of a single match in the semifinals of the doubles and several in the third round of the singles. In the doubles Ward and Davis, Harvard, defeated easily Noyes and Hackett, Yale, the score standing 6-2, 6-4. In the singles, Richard Hooker, Yale, won from D. H. Fuller, Cornell, 6-3, 8-6. Leo Ware and M. D. Whitman came together and Whitman won, 6-3, 6-3. Ware made a hard effort to pull out the second set but failed...
...Only one match was played this afternoon, Whitman and Ware meeting Hooker and Dodge in the semi-final doubles. The Yale men were the last representatives of their college in the doubles and fought well the first set but were completely outclassed in the second, Ware and Whitman winning...