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Haverford, Pa., Oct. 4.--In the second day's play of the intercollegiate tennis tournament. on the courts of the Merion Cricket Club, the Harvard players won three matches and lost one, leaving B. S. Prentice '05 and J. I. B. Larned '05 in the semi-finals of the singles and F. J. Sulloway '05, H. H. Whitman '06, Larned, and Prentice in the first round of the doubles. One of the features of the play today was the defeat of Rendell, the Princeton champion, by Prentice. H. H. Whitman '06 was defeated by R. Leroy of Columbia...
Haverford, Pa., Oct. 3.--In the preliminary and first rounds of the twenty-fourth annual intercollegiate tennis tournament which began here today, the Harvard entries won six matches and lost one, thus leaving J. I. B. Larned '05, B. S. Prentice '05 (captain), and H. H. Whitman '06, in the singles. F. J. Sulloway '05, was beaten in the first round by Dewhurst of Pennsylvania in a well played match...
...Yale will win. Of this year's University team Prentice and Larned are the only ones who played last year. In the national tournament held at Newport in August, Prentice and Sulloway did well, the latter being defeated by B. C. Wright '03 only after a hard four set match...
...best in the Nahant tournament, winning from Larned in the final round, 7-5, 6-4, 2-6, 6-3. Together with E. B. Dewhurst of Pennsylvania, last year's intercollegiate champion, he also won the doubles, defeating Larned and R. D. Wrenn in a hotly contested match, 4-6, 6-8, 6-2, 6-4, 7-5. At Southampton Larned turned the tables on Clothier, winning the singles, 7-5, 6-4, and with Wrenn defeated Clothier and Dewhurst in the doubles...
Wright's winning the Canadian challenge cup earlier in the summer is also worthy of note. In the match he defeated L. H. Wardner...