Word: matches
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Wilder '09 won the intercollegiate golf championship Saturday afternoon by defeating T. Briggs '09, 6 up and 5 to play, in the final match of 36 holes. Wilder played a steady game, at no time being less than two holes in the lead. Briggs got a poor start and was unable to overcome Wilder's lead as the match progressed...
...afternoon Wilder took the first and ninth holes, losing the fifth with the others a tie. Wilder also won the tenth in 5 and then halved the next three holes, winning the match 6 up and 5 to play...
...match, which was postponed from the previous day because of darkness, was extremely closely contested in spite of the fact that the Yale players did not get a set. Yale lobbed a great deal and kept the Pennsylvania men on the jump all the time, but were not able to overcome their swift drives and skilful placing. Since N. W. Niles '09 won the singles on Thursday, Harvard and Pennsylvania each gain one of the two possible points towards the possession of the intercollegiate trophy...
...semi-finals of the intercollegiate tennis tournament, played yesterday on the courts of the Merion Cricket Club, Philadelphia, Tilden and Thayer of Pennsylvania gained an unexpected and brilliant victory over Niles and Dabney, while the Yale men, Holden and Bundy, defeated Gardner and Dana in a close match. N. W. Niles '09 was victorious over A. S. Dabney '09 in the final round of the singles, so that Harvard gains one of the two possible points towards the possession of the intercollegiate trophy...
...drawings for today's match play, in so far as they concern Harvard representatives are as follows: H. H. Wilder (H) vs. A. Sweeney (H), J. W. Coe (H) vs. W. F. Morgan (H), C. L. Lanigan (H) vs. H. J. Roberts (P), T. Briggs (H) vs. MacAdoo...