Word: matches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...results will be exchanged by wire at the conclusion of the match, in this way allowing two teams to compete for the paltry sum of a few dollars which could otherwise be unable to play each other without an outlay of hundreds of dollars. Of course this is only in the nature of an experiment, but the interest lies in the fact that, as far as is known, no such contest has ever been staged...
...William Palmberg. No. 3; and Francis Keitkemper. No. 4. They will play in order against Phillips Finlay '31, W. P. Arnold Jr. '31, E. B. Murphy '31, and J. B. Baldwin '31. With the exception of Finlay the Harvard team is composed entirely of Massachusetts men making the match Oregon against Massachusetts players...
...actual playing of the match each team will have "old man par" as an opponent and the result between this encounter will determine the outcome. That is, the Harvard number one player will play against the Oregon number one man only indirectly since their efforts will be directed against the par of each hole on their own course. A player will receive one point for a par, two points for a birdie (one under par), and three points for an eagle (two under par). At the end of the match the player having the greatest number of points will...
...announcement that Harvard is to play Oregon University in a golf match in which the two teams will be playing three thousand miles apart makes the average person stop a minute and wonder where the desire for novelty in America will stop. There have been previous invasions of college sports by this seemingly dominant American characteristic but-never before has it gone to such an extreme...
...details of the match which is being played this afternoon have been worked out to a nicety and the results will be telegraphed across the continent from one institution to the other in order to determine the winner. If this experiment proves successful there might seem to be no reason why the golf team should ever-leave Cambridge to engage an opponent, except that, all the competitive spirit of the contest would be lost...