Word: narrowed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dividing the singles and taking two out of three doubles matches, the Harvard University tennis team defeated the Yale netmen at New Haven Saturday by the narrow margin of 5 to 4. It was the twelfth consecutive victory for Captain B. H. Whitbeck's team, but it was earned only after some intensive struggles with the Blue racquet wielders...
...forced the foreigners to fly out in order in the second, but the third frame found four invaders crossing the rubber. A hit, two errors and a fielder's choice filled the base paths. Eschman then smashed out a mighty circuit clout to pave the way for his teammates' narrow victory...
...into the stands. As Hensil wound up for the third throw McGrath streaked towards home in a desperate attempt to knot the count, sliding over the plate as the ball thumped into the catcher's mit. When the dust cleared Umpire Kelleher's hand could be seen signalling the narrow failure of the potential tally; the same gesture sounded the end of the Crimson's rally and the game...
...sages after exhaustive inquiry. It is rumored that the country's leading crew mentors will line the banks of the Charles this afternoon to discover if the innovation in boating methods will prove as successful in cheering the oarsmen and especially in guiding the boat along a straight and narrow path as the former small-boy tactics...
While living up to his title in the literal by investigating some of the remoter recesses of the New Hampshire hills from behind the wheel of an aged but still active automobile, the Vagabond was called upon to navigate a narrow passage between a car parked on one side of the road and a large mudhole on the other. But a winter's inactivity must have impaired his driving eye, for with a lurch and a slither the front wheel buried itself in the mud, and when the Vagabond got out to see the damage only a few grimy spokes...