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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...arrangements for the international chess match have suddenly met with an unexpected difficulty by the absence of the usual outside offer of peculiary aid. In 1808 the Knickerbocker Athletic Club of New York furnished means for carrying on the match and in 1899 the Associated Press made the same offer. This year there has been no such offer and plans have been made to organize a Graduate Chess Association for the purpose of raising funds. The association will consist of from five to ten men from each American college competing; this will include Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Columbia. The association...
...Rifle and Pistol Club was defeated by a team from the Boston Light Battery. A in a revolver match last night, by a total score of 710 to 676. The scores of the two teams were as follows: Harvard. Light Battery A. Mallinckrodt, 120 Hale, 151. Bane oft, 134. Blake, 142. Saint Gandens, 122. Amony, 145. Shirk, 145, Lord, 137. Shirk, 155, Wall...
...developed unusually well. An open tournament for novices alone will be given later in the year under the direction of the Boston Athletic Association. There has been more interest in fencing this year than ever before and with the good material a strong team will undoubtedly enter the intercollegiate match in the spring...
...park commissioners have now prepared a number of hockey rinks, which are to be kept in good condition. They are at Billings Field, North Brighton: at Franklin Field and on Columbus Avenue, near the South End Grounds, Boston. These rinks may be engaged for match games. There is good skating on the private rinks at the chutes in Boston and at the Cambridge Skating Club; also at Spy Pond, Arlington; Hammond's Pond, Chestnut Hill; Artificial Pond, Cambridge; Leverett Pond, Roxbury; Ell Pond, Melrose; Bour Pond, Woburn; Lake Quanapowitt, Wakefield; Crystal Lake, Newton; Charles River, Waltham; and the Mystic Lakes...
...full scores of the match are given below: COLUMBIA. Name. Won. Lost. Falk, 2 1 Keeler, 21/2 1/2 Schroed r, 11/2 11/2 Sewall, 21/2 1/2 -- -- Totals, 81/2 31/2 HARVARD. Perry, 11/2 11/2 Rice, 21/2 1/2 Fotch, 1 2 Clerk, 1 2 - - Totals, 6 6 PRINCETON. Ely, 11/2 11/2 Hunt, 11/2 11/2 Henley, 1 2 Weston, 2 1 - - Totals, 6 6 YALE. Adams, 11/2 11/2 Roberts, 1 2 Russ, 0 3 Sawin, 1 2 -- -- Totals, 31/2 81/2