Word: matched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Near the end of the semifinal round occurred an incident characteristic of tournament bridge, which is played with fierce attention to technicalities like a small boys' baseball game. In a nip-&-tuck match, A. Mitchell Barnes of the Vanderbilt team, playing a five-heart doubled contract, led a heart from dummy, pondered whether to finesse. Impatient with Mr. Barnes's slow play, Opponent Robert McPherran said: "It makes no difference." Mr. Barnes thereupon deduced that Mr. McPherran had two hearts instead of three, eventually went down 500 points instead of 300. Mr. Barnes protested that he had been...
...Dartmouth Tennis Team beat the Harvard racquetmen by a narrow 5-4 game here Saturday afternoon. Highlight of the match was the No. 1 doubling contest between Dave Hurt and Langdon Gilkey of Harvard and veterans Dartmouth...
...about the first five minutes Coach Skip Stahley's men withstood the terrific Green attack, but suddenly the defense collapsed, not to recover until the third quarter. The Hanoverian squad, paced by Jim Fuller and Captain Merriam, kept up a driving offensive throughout the match, and Harvard's fortunes sank from bad to worse in the second quarter when five points were chalked up against them...
Losing only one individual and one combination match, Coach Clark Hodder's Varsity golfers defeated the Boston University divotmen 6 1/2 to 2 1/2 yesterday afternoon on the Belmont course...
...CRIMSON wishes to correct the error made in yesterday's paper in reporting the Varsity lacrosse match with Stevens Institute. The game was won by Harvard by a score of 3 to 1, and not by Stevens, as previously stated...