Word: match
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reginald Weir's entry was tactfully worded. He hoped that it would be accepted, but he would not make an issue of it if it weren't. At Manhattan's Seventh Regiment Armory last week, he played and won his first round match (6-4, 6-2) in the National Indoor Tennis Championship. Even though he was soundly beaten (6-1, 6-1) by top-seeded Billy Talbert in the second round, Dr. Weir felt that he had won a victory. For the first time in history, a Negro had played in a U.S. Lawn Tennis Association...
...white-robed figure scrambled selfconsciously to the courthouse lawn with a pesthole digger. Four more, grunting quite humanly, lugged up a big kerosene-drenched cross. One touched a match to it. As the flames shot up, a green-robed man-Atlanta Physician Samuel Green, Georgia's Grand Dragon-stepped into the light...
Ninety minutes before the Varsity match Peroy's Freshmen make their bid for an undefeated season when they meet the Yale cubs in the Payne-Whitney...
With practically identical season records, the Varsity match will probably be decided in the sabers, the strongest department. In every match this year the Crimson has won the saber events and in all but the Cornell encounter, was able to break even in the foils and epee...
...Unlimited class, Captain Pete Fuller got as far as the quarter-finals before losing a close match to Lehigh's mastodon, 4 to 2. Dan Ray, who drew a bye into the second round, was also eliminated...