Word: net
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University tennis team defeated the Longwood Cricket Club team at Long-wood yesterday afternoon 5-4. The club team is composed of veterans most of whom have held high positions in state and national rankings and the victory of the Crimson net-men speaks well for the improvement they have made during the last two weeks. In most cases the scores were close and the result was not decided until late in the evening when Captain Duane finally won a hard three-set match from W. E. Porter, present doubles champion of Massachusetts. After winning the first...
...will leave for Princeton this afternoon. They will spend the night in New York, going out to Princeton in the morning, and starting the match at 2 o'clock. The Princeton team is exceptionally strong this year, and it will take sterling work on the part of the Crimson net-men to break their undefeated record...
...University tennis team defeated Williams College Saturday afternoon on the Longwood covered courts 5-1. Williams, although showing a marked improvement over her playing in Friday's match against M. I. T. failed to check the Crimson net-men and while the contests were hard fought, the only match to go into three sets was the one captured by the visitors...
Pfaffman defeated Prescott of Williams 8-6, 9-7, in the best singles match of the day. Both men hit the ball hard, but Pfaffman's superior service and net-play was the deciding factor. Guild, after apparently losing the first set to Cook, rallied and won the match, while Captain Duane, playing in his best form, disposed of Rouse with the loss of but three games...
...points of view. It is characteristic of such a course, that the members either get a great deal out of it, or nothing at all. It is a course given by a teacher; a man who makes his contact, not "by iron wires, of great resistance and little net current, copper wires that transmit well;" but, "by wireless contact of souls...