Word: matches
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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This began on August 13. The early part of the tournament attracted more than usual attention, since the match in doubles, between the Western champions, Little and Alexander of Princeton, and the Easterners, L. E. Ware '99 and B. C. Wright '03 was very close. Five sets were needed to decide it, Ware and Wright finally winning...
...Wright '03 defeated L. E. Ware '99 in the finals of the Massachusetts state tennis tournament yesterday afternoon 7-5, 7-5, 6-1; and won the state championship from D. F. Davis '00 by default. The final match was very close for the first two sets. Both players were swift Ware the more brilliant, and Wright the steadier. In the third set, however, Wright showed superior endurance, and had no trouble in winning. Three victories are necessary to obtain possession of the challenge cup, and this is Wright's first. D. F. Davis '00, M. D. Whitman...
...Wheelock '01 was the only Harvard men to qualify for the individual match play...
...Ives 2L. and S. H. Derby 2L. won the finals of the doubles tennis tournament on Saturday afternoon by defeating D. L. Robinson 3L. and S. G. Morley 3G., 6-2, 1-6, 6-1, 2-6, 6-4. The match as a whole was loosely played and without special features. Ives and Derby had good team work and at times played a hard consistent game, marred only by poor handling of lobs. Robinson and Morley, on the other hand, relied on individual playing...
...second match of the semi-finals Ives and Derby defeated Cutter '03 and Fischel '02, 6-1, 6-4. The first set was easily won by swift playing. The second, however, was well contested throughout...