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Word: matches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...them play. What was a little rain? It would be good for the greens, the cheery faces of the Britishers seemed to say. Mlle. Thion de la Chaume shivered, hooked her drives into the long tough grass, Miss Collett shivered, took a nine in one hole, but tied the match at the ninth and went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Hunstanton | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

...drizzling rain forced the University tennis players to resort to the indoor courts at Longwood on Saturday afternoon, where after an uphill battle they defeated Yale 7 to 2 in the final match of a very successful season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NETMEN REPULSE YALE TEAM, 7 TO 2 | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

Captain B. H. Whitbeck '29, staged a comeback in his encounter with Pitman of Yale, when a stubbornly contested three set match ended with a score of 5-7, 6-4, 7-5 in favor of the Crimson leader. Pitman stormed through the first set, using his fast flat first serve with great effect on the hard surface. Whitbeck, recovering in a fast second set, won it 6-4 and went into the third with terrific strokes which wilted Pitman's three-game lead and took...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NETMEN REPULSE YALE TEAM, 7 TO 2 | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

With the Yale game in prospect for Wednesday, the Crimson twelve has entered intensive practice during, the past week, when weather conditions allowed, and the results of this training should show in the match with Williams, whose team has taken only one of three games played this spring. The Purple aggregation has lost to St. Lawrence and St. Stephen's Colleges and has defeated Cortland...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY STICKMEN MEET WILLIAMS TWELVE | 5/26/1928 | See Source »

...Freshman tennis match scheduled for yesterday afternoon with Columbia Grammar School of New York City was cancelled on account of wet courts. The schoolboys came to Cambridge, but left by train in the early afternoon when they found that play was impossible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rain Cancels 1931 Tennis Match | 5/24/1928 | See Source »

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