Word: matching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...engaged in a match against a combined team from New York and Detroit. Mr. Maschke's team lost, 27 boards to 25. But last June, Mr. Maschke and his three mates on the Cleveland Whist Club team won the U. S. auction bridge championship, at a tournament held in Hanover...
Riding against the Yale Freshmen in the second and final match of the indoor polo series, the Harvard horsemen will enter the Commonwealth Armory tonight, heavy favorites. The play will get under way at 8 o'clock...
Although one match remains to be played in the Sophomore-Freshman round of the interclass squash tournament the results of the matches now played show that the score stands 4 to 2 in favor of the Sophomores and that the outcome of the remaining encounter will not affect their status as winners. The summary of the matches so far played is as follows: Daniel Merriman '31 defeated E. M. Warburg '30, 2-1. R. P. Honigsberg '30 defeated R. R. Stebbins '31, 2-0; R. B. Gierasch '30 defeated G. T. Emmett '31, 2-0. E. W. Olney '30 defeated...
...Club, Manhattan, with certain games of racquets. Around the white oblongs of the courts flew small hard balls. Smashing and coaxing them with long slim implements like attenuated tennis racquets U. S. notables and sturdy Britishers played for the International Racquets Trophy. The doubles were divided. Singles went one match to Britain, one to U. S. Into the court strode Clarence C. Pell, U. S. champion, to serve and smash and nurse his shots against J. C. F. Simpson, best of British players. Mr. Pell, playing the greatest game of his eventful racquet history, beat Mr. Simpson three straight games...
...married and faraway; Wilfred, who had especially liked rabbits or other animals, is dead in France. Wise Mrs. Bonney is dead too, and foolish, likable Mr. Bonney has inexplicably taken himself another wife. This humble, quiet homily, neither gay nor tragic, has a brown plainness of treatment to match its substance. It is a novel for those who do not mistake savagery for sincerity, rage or ribaldry for realism, who can bear with a certain lack of energy and emphasis when it is not replaced with drooling "poignance...