Word: matches
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...week in coaching the lacrosse team. He will devote special attention to the attack, with the endeavor to improve the stick work and perfect the team play. The work of the next two weeks will be directed towards putting the team in the best of condition for the match with the English team, which will be played on Soldiers Field, June...
Play will begin on Saturday afternoon at 2.30 and will continue on Monday and Tuesday at 3.30, and on Wednesday morning at 10. All matches will be for the best two out of three advantage sets except the challenge match, which will be for the best three out of five. Entries will be received up to 4 p.m. on Friday, June 12, by R.C. Seaver, care of National Bank of Commerce, Boston, to whom all communications in regard to the tournament should be addressed. An entrance fee of $1.00 should accompany each entry...
...last Thursday will be played off some time this week. The completion of this game will give the final standing of the league, and if Pennsylvania wins, as seems very probable the championship will be a tie, as each of the three Universities will have won and lost one match...
...most interesting match in the singles was that between Leonard (H.) and Plummer (Y.) Leonard, through ability to pass Plummer at the net, and great accuracy in his cross-court strokes, won two straight sets, 7-5, 6-4. By fast, aggressive play, Blagden (H.) defeated Sturgis (Y.), 6-2, 6-1, and Warland (H.) defeated Sargent (Y.), 6-3, 6-3. Larned (H.), by slow, but remarkably steady tennis, defeated Collins (Y.), 9-7, 9-7, Bishop (H.) was not in his usual form and Condict (Y.) defeated him, 6-4, 6-2. Cole (Y.) defeated Prentice...
...best match in the doubles was the one between Leonard and Warland (H.) and Plummer and Condict (Y.), and was won by Leonard and Warland, 6-2, 6-3, 10-8. Both pairs showed excellent team play and Warland was very effective in passing his opponents at the net. Sturgis and Sargent (Y.), through excellent play at the net, defeated Blagden and Bishop (H.), 6-4, 12-10, 7-5. Larned and Prentice outplayed Collins and Cole (Y.) and won their match...