Word: matches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whitbeck proved himself a played of remarkable steadiness Saturday afternoon in his match with Neil Sullivan. Philadelphia No. 4 man and running mate of Williams in the doubles grouping, by coming from behind after dropping the initial set 4-6 and capturing the event 6-4, 6-2. The Crimson captain found the going difficult on the grass courts at first and upset his game trying to fathom the low bounces. In the last two sets, he found himself and swept Sullivan back with crisp drives to the baselines...
...first hole and was never down. Several holes were halved, as when Mr. Wethered drove onto a railroad track and Perkins missed a one-yard putt, but in the afternoon on the fourteenth hole it was Mr. Wethered who missed the yard putt, giving Perkins the hole, the match, and the amateur championship. All the U. S. players had been put out in the early rounds...
Winning the opening game on its new Phipps Field, the Yale polo team squeezed out a 5 to 4 victory over Harvard at New Haven on Saturday. The dedication of the field, put off four times on account of rainy weather, was finally accomplished in a close match in which the Crimson led until the final chukker...
...large crowd of about 4000 people witnessed the match, which was played on a field wet from the morning's rain...
Yale won the outdoor series from Harvard as a result of this match, the second Blue victory this spring...