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Plans for the international cable match for the Isaac L. Rice trophy have been completed, and the match will probably take place the first part of March. The provisional team which will represent Harvard, Yale, Columbia and Princeton is as follows: L. P. Carr '04, and P. W. Bridgman '04, Harvard; G. W. Tucker, Jr., '05, Columbia; L. M. Schoonmaker, Princeton, and A. Sandiford '04, and E. B. Adams '04, Yale. The American side of the match is expected to take place at the B. A. A., in Boston. The trophy becomes the property of the side winning three successive...
...challenge to a revolver match has been received from the members of Battery A in Boston, and if the permission of the Athletic Committee is obtained, the club will accept the challenge. The match for the best two out of three shoots will probably be held in February, the first two shoots being held here and at the South Armory in Boston. If a third shoot is necessary the place will be determined later. The Club and the Battery will each be represented by a team of four...
...meeting last Wednesday of the captains of the Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and Princeton teams, a provisional team was chosen to play in the international cable chess match for the Issac L. Rice trophy. This team was composed of L. P. Carr '04 and P. W. Bridgman '04 of Harvard, G. W. Tucker, Jr., '05 of Columbia, L. M. Schoonmaker of Princeton, and A. Sandiford '04 and E. B. Adams '04D of Yale. As Adams will be unable to play, the sixth position on the team is still open...
...December 30, the triangular chess league composed of Cornell, Brown and Pennsylvania, issued a challenge to the league composed of Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and Princeton for a team match to be played between the leagues by teams composed of six men. The challenge was accepted and the match was held at the Manhattan Chess Club on December 31. The quadrangular league was represented by Adams, Yale; Bridgman. Harvard; Tucker, Columbia; Carr, Harvard; Schoonmaker, Princeton; and Sandiford, Yale. Only one round was played, the triangular league winning by a score of 3 to 2. The sixth game, between Tucker of Columbia...
...chess clubs of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Columbia universities, have just sent a formal joint challenge to the chess clubs of Oxford and Cambridge, proposing an international cable match to defend the Rice trophy. This match will be held during the spring, and will be the sixth in the series of contests for the possession of the silver shield, valued at $1,200, given by Mr. I. L. Rice of New York. This shield will become the permanent property of the country winning it three years in succession. Of the previous international intercollegiate matches, Great Britain has won three, America...