Word: racquet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the loss of only two matches out of the 20 played in their progress through the tournament, the University Racquet wielders swept aside the opposition on the Racquet Club courts in Washington, D.C. to retain the National Team Championship for another year. After successively defeating Baltimore, Chicago, and Boston last Saturday and Sunday the Crimson squad downed the Philadelphia court team in the final match yesterday by a 4 to 1 score. After the match the team elected Herbert Noel Rawlins '27 of New York City, College title holder, who performed brilliantly throughout the championship play, as captain...
...Crimson racquet men had little difficulty in dropping Baltimore and Chicago on the opening day of the tournament but lost one game to both Boston and Philadelphia on the following days. Bray of the Newton Center squad, playing for Boston, was the first to break the string of Crimson victories with a win over L.S. Haskins '26 last Sunday. In the final match Keele of Philadelphia inflicted the second loss against T.E. Jansen '26, in a tight struggle. S.P. Clark '14, who downed Captain G.D. Debevoise '26, in the semi-finals last year for the only University loss...
...Washington, D. C. last night, to enter the national team championship tournament. Coach Harry Cowles, Captain G. D. Debevoise '26, R. S. Wright '26, L. S. Haskins '26, and T. T. Jansen '26 are the members of the team who left Cambridge last night and will arrive at the Racquet Club of Washington, D. C., this morning where the matches will be played. The Crimson racquet wielders will stay at the Racquet Club during the five days of the tournament...
Thursday. Dreamed I was playing Lenglen. My arm was paralyzed. I couldn't lift my racquet, and her shots came as fast as bullets from a machine-gun. They fell all around me with monotonous little explosions, tum-tat-tat-tum. ... It was rain on the roof. . . . No tennis today, I thought, and went to sleep again till 11 o'clock. . . . Some minx started the rumor that Patou had given me $1,000 worth of clothes. When reporters asked him about it he said: "You know I never gave anything away in my life." A good friend...
...almost certain of taking five matches from the Weston court men today the Crimson seconds may find themselves trailing the University graduates by one game after this match. Next Saturday the deciding matches of the season will be played when the University second squad meets the Union Boat Club racquet team and the Harvard Club clashes with the Newton five...