Word: plays
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...chess tournament finally decided to draw lots as to the best means of settling the contest. The drawing gave F. W. Nichols, '92, first prize; F. M. Brown, '90, second, and S. W. Sturgis, '90, third. The games among these players have been so even that several attempts to play off the tie resulted in one victory and one defeat for each man. So much time has been consumed in these matches the only practicable means of finishing the tournament seemed an appeal to chance...
This year the Melrose Baseball Club will be made up largely of Harvard men. Bates will pitch; Campbell and Knowlton, catch, and Gallivan will be at third base. Boyden also will probably play. It will probably be the strongest team the Melrose club has ever...
...game between Dickson and Chamberlin and Brown and Mulford has not yet been played. The winners will be tied with two other couples for second place. The games in the play-off in both sections must be finished before Wednesday, March 13. They will be governed by the same rules as before, except that contestants will be required to keep account of games as well as matches. In case of another tie in the number of matches won, the pair winning the most games will be entitled to enter the final round. Matches in this round may be played...
...preparatory schools in New England will have a chance to compete. The present plan is to arrange a series of games between the nines of the preparatory schools which are situated in or very near Boston. Then a team picked from the best players of these nines is to play a game on Jarvis Field with the winning nine of the annual Andover-Exeter game. It is not yet surely known whether or not Andover and Exeter will enter into the scheme, but there is every reason to suppose that they will readily consent to form a part...
...Wednesday a hockey team of six men went from Cambridge to play a match with a team of six from the Groton School, at Groton. The men who composed the team were Fitzhugh, '91, (captain), Rhinelander, L. S., Dean, '91, Barron, '91, Neff, '92, and Ruland, '89. About one o'clock the team reached the school, where they were cordially welcomed by Mr. Peabody, the head master. The men dined in the school with Mr. and Mrs. Peabody and the masters and boys, and the meal was made thoroughly enjoyable by the genial, homelike atmosphere of the place. In spite...