Word: matching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years, then the Harvard team visits West Point. At home again it meets Syracuse and Penn State in two consecutive days; then after a week's rest receive the J. Sanford Saltus Club, an experienced team of New York swordsmen, who have visited Harvard for several years. Following this match the semi-finals are held in New York, at Columbia, between Columbia, Tech, Yale, and Dartmouth. Then, if our team qualifies, the members will again go to New York on April 2, to compete in the intercollegiates, which will wind up the season...
...dinner waxed, two dapper gentlemen at a nearby table saw Lord Birkenhead look upon the .wine of Madeira-and it was red. Then the dapper gentlemen began a spelling match, quite innocently, between themselves. Soon they, shrewd sharpers, were betting on each other's spelling prowess. When the game was ripening to high stakes one of the so dapper gentlemen approached the Earl of Birkenhead. "We know Your Lordship is a great student of the English language. . . . Perhaps Your Lordship will spell two score words against my friend-?100 to the winner. . . . Your Lordship has the repute of being...
...Bored, because, although the ceremonials of each match average ten minutes, the average, wrestling time is about 80 seconds; 3) Astonished at the mad leaps and dartings of the gyoji (umpire) who controls the bout by the movements of his gumbai...
...first Crimson racquet team, inactive since its match with the Boston Athletic Association two weeks ago when it successfully defended the State title honors, will take the courts again this afternoon in its annual clash with the Yale players. This match will mark an innovation in the Crimson and Blue contests, as heretofore the New Haven quintet has come to Harvard for these engagements...
...interesting feature of the tournament is the entrance of a crack team from Great Britain, which is on a tour throughout this country. In a recent match against the New York Squash Racquets Club players, V. A. Cazalet, the number one man, defeated W. P. Dixon '25. American champion for the past two years, in straight games...