Word: player
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...executive committee were unquestionably authorized in electing directors from the lower classes. The clear statement of the association of the use the income received from the small fee charged would be put to shows that there is nothing extortionate in their actions, and we feel sure that no tennis player will object to paying fifty cents, when, by the new arrangement, he pays for the marking of his court, whether or not it was marked before the new rules were passed, less than half the amount charged heretofore, besides having the privilege of using any court when unoccupied...
...count in every match; challenging clubs may claim a time limit of one and one-half hours, but play must continue for at least one hour and until at least one goal is won; all rests between goals to count as part of the required time; a player must be thirty days a resident of the city or place from which the club in which he is playing comes; members of college teams are permitted to play with any club during vacations, but must give at least one week's notice on changing from one club to another...
After this New York was confined mostly to the defensive, and was repeatedly saved from defeat only by the exertions of the player at point, who successfully resisted the efforts of the Harvard homes to get the ball near the goal. At length a well-directed throw of Woods won the first goal for Harvard in thirty minutes...
...strangers. Constant use will injure the court and it is not fair that the owner should pay for other people's amusement. The way of meeting this objection would be to have all the courts marked by the association at the common expense. Let every tennis player pay a certain fee for the privileges of the association, and let those privileges be limited to the members. In this way too, the marking could probably be done at less expense than at present, as the present rates are exorbitant. Even should the association be unwilling to assume the responsibility and expense...
...Yale Courant makes the rather astonishing claim that W. C. Camp, the well-known Yale foot-ball and base-ball player, "has certainly done as much as, and we feel that we might say more than, any man in this country to advance athletic sports...