Word: matches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pratt worked his way up to a varsity racquet in fall tennis, and proved himself in the inconclusive Williams match which was shut-out by darkness at 4 to 3 for Williams. He took five games straight in the third set of his singles flurry, losing only one point during the stint, to twist a 5 to 2 lead against him into a victory and thus force the match to a draw...
...snubs rain, and storms have only kept the team indoors for the day of the weather onslaught itself. In the past, precious practices had to be cancelled for days after a shower. Also, they have given Barnaby a chance to work up a ten-man squad for the Yale match on good courts. Charlie Ames, Loring Briggs, Hilliard Hughes, Howie Swartzman, and Jack Frey are at present pounding the extra surfaces with an eye for the Eli fray...
This afternoon's Varsity golf match with Brown can be the fourth straight win for Captain Sam Savidge's men. But with number one player Bill Rickenbacker out of the contest with a severely cut finger, it can also be the toughest northern match the team has yet played...
...team is optimistic over the impending match, and, according to Savidge, has a right to be so. Scores in the low seventies and three successive wins against some of New England's stiffest competition are a team record that is likely to inspire a little confidence and hope in any member of the squad--even without Rickenbacker...
...team's second win over B.U., the last one being a 7 1/2 to 1 1/2 decision that Captain Sam Savidge's men took handily on April 16. The match also marked the squad's third straight victory in the north, a streak that followed closely on the three-game string of losses that southern teams inflicted during the spring recess...