Word: rains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...season started on April 16 when the team met the Agswam Hunt Club of Providence, R. I., in the first match of the spring trip. Here rain caused the playing to be carried on indoors, and it was possible to complete only two matches, the contest ending in a tie. In Virginia the team was more successful, defeating the Country Club of Virginia 9-0 at Richmond on April 17 and the Norfolk Country Club 7-2 on the following...
...week later the team was defeated by the East Side Tennis Club of Providence, R. I., in the first home match of the season, the visitors winning 5-4 as the result of superior steadiness. The Colgate match had to be cancelled because of rain, but on the fourth of May, Williams was beaten 5-1 on the Longwood covered courts, while M. I. T. succumbed by the same score on the Divinity courts three days later...
...slate clean and add another victory to its total of five straight wins when it meets the Yale Freshmen on the New Haven courts at 3 o'clock this afternoon. The Crimson yearlings have been unfortunate this spring in having to cancel many of their matches due to rain, and what contests they have played have resulted in one-sided victories. Consequently they go to New Haven almost untested with the result that while their record is more brilliant, they have not had as good a preparation for a hard match as the Blue team...
...Rain caused the University tennis team to move from the Divinity courts to the Longwood covered courts at Chestnut Hill yesterday afternoon and this fact, was, without doubt, responsible in part for the ease with which the Crimson defeated Pennsylvania with the loss of but one of the six matches played. In four of the contests the second set was won by a closer score than the first and it is probable that, the visitors would have given the Crimson a hard fight had they been more accustomed to the strange conditions of the indoor courts...
...credit the Purple nine may offer an unexpected resistance when it meets the University players at Soldiers Field this afternoon at 4 o'clock. The visitors had shown but little strength until they met Amherst on Thursday. Though the game was called in the fourth inning because of rain they were able to hold their rivals to one tally and to score a tying run two innings later...