Word: matches
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...been for several years. His playing was far above the average, as is shown by the fact that he won twenty-two games in succession for Harvard. Catchings, the president of the Chess Club, was substitute on the team last year and also played in the international match. Perry, who won the fall tournament, played on the Worcester Academy team last year, and has made a good showing against prominent eastern players. Rice, first substitute, has shown marked improvement this fall. He won from Pillsbury in the recent simultaneous exhibition. The Harvard players have received excellent coaching from...
...first shoot will take place of Friday evening in the cage, and regular shoots will follow on Wednesday and Friday evenings. As soon as possible two teams will be picked. Matches are being arranged with the Light and Heavy Artillery of the Battery A, with a team of officers of the Naval Brigade and with the Smith and Wesson team. There is also the possibility of a match with Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania...
...annual intercollegiate chess match will be held this year in the rooms of the Columbia Grammar School, New York City, beginning Christmas Day and continuing throughout Christmas week. Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Columbia will be represented. Each team will consist of two men and each member will play six games. The team with the largest percentage of games won will win the match. The silver loving cup, which has been won by Harvard teams for the last five years, will be again played for. The conditions are that the college winning it ten consecutive times will become the perpetual owner...
After the match a meeting was held to elect the officers of the association for 1899-1900 with the following result: President, E. Mallinckrodt, Jr., Harvard; secretary and treasurer, H. Hughart Laughlin, Princeton. Resolutions were passed combining the positions of secretary and treasurer and making future matches consist of 50 rounds per man instead of the present 30. The next shoot will be held in May at New Haven...
...Chess Club defeated the Somerville Y. M. C. A. by the score of 6 to 2, in a match played last Wednesday night...