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Harvard's chances for a second victory, which are very good, depend upon Hubbard and Averell. The latter has broken the record of the course with a score of 35, and Hubbard, who won the Newport championship two years ago, is very strong on match play. The first round will be played this morning, the semi-finals in the afternoon, and the final round, which is to be 36 holes, will be played on Saturday...
...match between Clark of Harvard, and Pyne of Princeton, was also an exciting one. At the fifteenth hole Clark was one up, but Pyne gained on him, and won the match one up. The scores were Pyne, 80; Clark, 82. The morning's play thus ended with Harvard ten, Princeton...
Ward won the match by steady, even playing and excellent judgment. Although Roche played a much more brilliant game and continually passed Ward by hard smashing, he was erratic, and lost the match from unsteadiness in returning Ward's strokes within the court. Both men played a close net game...
Ward found out early in the match that he was unable to pass Roche by straight return-strokes as the latter covered the court with ease, without using any back-hand strokes. To offset this difficulty, he pursued from the outset the policy of steady accurate lobbing, thus forcing Roche to smash. Most of his returns passed Ward along the side lines, but owing to the difficulty of playing a steady smashing game accurately, many of them went outside...
...championship match between H. Ward and E. R. Marvin will be played on Friday afternoon...