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...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...
...ousting the Newton racquet wielders from the top berth, the Crimson five displayed the best form that it has shown this season. J. L. Pool '28 and H. B. Jackson '27, the first two players in the second team line-up played brilliant squash to win decisively and without the loss of a single game. In the fourth match P. R. Pease '26 after dropping the second and third game of his match with Goddard, came back strongly to capture the last two games and the contest. Manager G. H. Perkins '26 was forced to an extra game...
...will probably be in the leading position after its next match. The University graduates are slated to win all five matches when they meet the Weston Club next Saturday, which will land them in first place by one game. In their last match of the season the Harvard Club racquet swingers will clash with the strong Newton Club players while the Crimson court team will face weaker opposition in the Union Boat Club contest...