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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Rice '01 and F. E. Thayer '00 S. will represent Harvard in the chess match with Oxford and Cambridge on April 23. The withdrawal of E. R. Perry '03 from College deprived Harvard of one of her best players and for this reason it has been determined to invite J. B. Hunt '02 of Princeton, to play on the American team...
Arrangements for the chess match with Oxford and Cambridge have finally been completed and the Harvard men for the American team will be chosen within a week. The outlook is much brighter than at first, as C. T. Rice '01 has recovered from his illness and C. F. C. Arensberg '01 will try for the team...
...report of the intercollegiate fencing tournament given in yesterday's CRIMSON was taken from an account sent out early Saturday evening and was not final. There were 90 bouts and the last match was not finished until after one o'clock in the morning. Harvard won the team honors by a single bout from the United States Naval Academy, the points being 23 to 22 respectively. Cornell and Columbia followed close behind in the order named with 21 and 20 points. Yale secured only four points...
...Harvard team was composed of M. D. de Diaz '99, H. Clapp 1 Dn., F. W. Hitchings '01. The Harvard men won the match under great difficulties, as de Diaz and Clapp sprained their wrists in the afternoon so badly that they were compelled to have the foils strapped to their hands during the evening. The team trophy will be returned to its place in the Trophy Room for the coming year...
...annual handicap shoot begins today. A 95-dollar Remington shotgun will be offered as first prize, and a cup as second. Each contestant will be handicapped on the basis of his last six scores and will shoot at 120 birds plus his allowance. Two match scores of 20 birds must be completed each week of which the four highest will be counted. Any contestant's handicap may be changed at the discretion of the captain at the close of the first two scores but not thereafter. The entrance fee is three dollars...