Word: piers
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Thursday to choose twelve men who should play for places as Harvard representatives at the Intercollegiate tournament at New Haven, October 3. An open tournament was impossible on account of the nearness of this date. Yesterday's play was as follows: preliminary round, J. Chase defeated M. Johnston; A. Pier defeated A. Codman; J. B. Read defeated A. Couer. First round, G. Wrenn defeated P. Wrenn; J. B. Read defeated A. Couer. First round, G. Wrenn defeated P. Wrenn; J. B. Read defeated A. Pier; W. Gosline defeated E. Stevens by default; Thomas defeated Anderson by default. J. B. Read...
...readable and amusing story though it has absolutely no plot "Two Sketches" by J. A. Gade and P. LaRose are fair. Gade's "On the Bou evard des Italiens" is much the better of the two and is very promising. "The Turning of the Tide" by A. S. Pier is the story of how a poet was lost and became an ordinary man. It is not very interesting though it is very pleasantly written. The other stories "The Landing of the Sturgeon" by G. C. Christian, and "A Strange Acquaintance," anonymous, are very good...
...first set was very close. Pier and Dodge had the lead most of the time and Read and Phillips barely won with a score...
...second set Read and Phillips had it all their own way. Dodge and Pier were both wild...
...beginning of the third set Pier and Dodge braced up and won the first game after two deuces. The second game went to Read and Phillips at deuce. The third game Read and Phillips won love. The next two games Pier and Dodge won fifteen and love, making the score 3 to 2 in favor of Pier and Dodge. After this they were unable to win another game and Read and Phillips won the set at 6-3 thus winning the match and the tournament...