Word: matches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...varsity tennis team played one of its best games of the season against Yale Saturday, but the Blue played a little better to take a close 8 to 7 victory in a match that began at noon and wasn't over until...
...marathon match was necessitated because the number four singles was played three hours ahead of the rest of the match and late afternoon rain forced some of the games into the Brookline Country Club that evening...
Banker Jones remonstrated, but Plain Ben got himself a few horses and struck out. In between fairs, he kept his eyes open for a man with a horse and an urge to bet. Whenever he found one, a course was marked out and a match run, with the stakes sometimes as high...
...tough league. In Oklahoma City, Ben once got hornswoggled in a match race against an Indian quarter-horse. The Indians dug a hole in the lane Ben's horse was to run in, filled it with straw and covered it with dirt. When Ben's horse hit the hole, she went sprawling and the Indians took his money. Since then Ben has been pretty thorough about inspecting tracks before a race...
...either Warren Wright or Ben Jones has any sporting blood in his system, argue that a horse can prove his greatness only under high weight. At anything like even weights, Citation and Coaltown are admittedly in a class by themselves. Horsemen and fans alike would like to see a match race between the two, but Warren Wright is too sharp a businessman to waste that much horsepower on a single race...