Word: racquets
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...annual intercollegiate fencing tournament takes place tomorrow afternoon and evening in New York at the Racquet and Tennis Club. The competing teams are from Harvard, Columbia and Annapolis. Great interest has been taken in fencing this year among the cadets of the Naval Academy and three professors have been busily employed giving instruction. The Columbia team will probably be composed of Townsend of last year's team, and two of the three men who took part in the junior contest on April 5. The judges selected are Dr. Hammond and Mr. Shaw of the N. Y. A. C., Dr. Echeverria...
...Racquest and Tennis Club of New York, held an invitation fencing meeting in which the following teams took part: The Twelfth Regiment, the Racquet Club, New York Athletic Club, the Fencers Club and the Harvard Fencing Club. There were no prizes, but a novel method of judging was tried namely, that of having for judges all those in the front row of the spectators and those not at the time fencing...
According to the votes of this large jury the Harvard team beat that of the Twelfth Regiment; the New York Athletic Club beat the Racquet Club, and in the finals the Fencers' Club defeated the Harvard team by the narrow margin of one vote out of a jury of about fifteen. The Harvard team was composed of J. P. Parker '96, J. E. Hoffman '96, and A. G. Thacher '97. Hoffman showed the greatest improvement over last year's form. Among the New York fencers were Messrs. Post, Bothner and Townsend, who finished in the order named in the amateur...
...there will be held at Sherry's in New York, a benefit for Professor Gouspy, of the Racquet Club; most of the prominent amateurs in New York will be present, and J. E. Hoffman '96, and A. G. Thacher '97, have been invited to compete. The feature of the afternoon will be the bout between Professor Gouspy and Professor Rondelle of the Harvard Fencing Club...
...intercollegiate fencing trophy offered by the Racquet and Tennis Club of New York, and won by the Harvard team, is now on exhibition at Leavitt & Peirce...