Word: matches
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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First Round.- D. Davis 1900 vs. W. M. Scudder '99, 9.30; R. T Parke '98 vs. winner Forbes-Ward match, 2.30; H. Foster '98 vs. R. H. Carleton...
...semi-finals in the Massachusetts State tennis tournament were played at Longwood yesterday morning between M. D. Whitman '99 and Y. M. Edwards and G. L. Wrenn, Jr., '96, and L. E. Ware '99. Whitman won the first set of bis match very easily, his opponent not getting a game. In the second Edwards braced up, but when the score was tied at 5-5, Whiman succeeded in winning the next game and match...
...match between Wrenn and Ware was much better played and was very close. Wrenn got the first set, 6-3; then Ware took the second, 6-4, by good smashing at the net. In the third set both men improved, and the tennis was remarkably good. Both men ran up on their service, and each won on his service until the score was 3-3. Wrenn won the next two games. Ware got the ninth, although Wrenn was in one point of the match four times in this game, but then Wrenn won the next game...
...matches except the challenge match will be best two in three sets, the third set only being advantage. The challenge match will be best three in five advantage sets...
...done so well this year in Cambridge as it has done elsewhere, with the exception of the Princeton game. The former game with Pennsylvania and the two games with Brown were characterized by the excellent ball playing, yet so far Holmes Field has seen but one really good match and that went against Harvard. Today the University is anxious to see a good, snappy exhibition of ball playing and to see the Harvard team win. The students are confident in the strength of the 'Varsity Nine, and are proud of its recent victory over Brown...