Word: nets
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Entries, $1 each, close May 7. All entries must be accompanied by certified handicap at player's home club and the scratch score from which such handicap is taken. A silver medal will be given for best gross score in the first event and one also for the best net score...
Last evening L. E. Ware '99 beat A. Codman '96 in a very close and well-played match in the third round of the indoor tennis tournament at Newton. Ware ran up to the net on his service and volleyed well, while Codman stayed in the back of the court throughout the match...
...worth mentioning until the crisis was passed. One ladder-truck was on hand with reasonable promptness, but it was fully ten minutes later before a ladder was raised. In the meanwhile the man had been forced to jump and not firemen but students broke his fall with the life net. In the course of time more apparatus arrived and more men, but even then the lack of training and still more evident lack of capable direction were apparent. There was plenty of shouting by all hands and very little "teamwork...
...raised by six men experienced in its use, however, and there were but two members of the department on the truck, the captain having run back to ring in a second alarm. The lieutenant of the truck company aided by several undergraduates then hurried to get out the life net which was spread below Henney, and only just in time, for even before it was sufficiently manned he was forced to jump. The smoke was so dense that he was invisible to those below and landing in the net near the weaker end almost before its holders knew...
...Yale Musical Clubs last year made a net profit of $1000 on all the concerts given...