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...first round of the annual whist tournament will end Feb. 24. Each couple will play every couple in its set one game consisting of sixteen deals, play and re-play. Hearts shall be trumps. All scores, signed by the players, should be handed in at a Berkins Hall. The laws of duplicate whist shall govern the game. In case of any controversy, the decision will be left to the Tournament Committee. The penalty for a revoke shall be two tricks. The drawings by sets are as follows...
...preliminary round of the annual interclass tournament will begin next week. About forty men have already entered. From this number the two men in each class making the best showing in the preliminary round will be selected to represent their classes. Thus, counting the Law School which will also be represented, there will be in all five teams to compete for final honors. After the formation of the five teams each man will play eight games and his score with that of his colleague will determine the standing of his class. The tournament will extend over about four weeks...
...University, will begin on February 12. The entries will be divided into sets of four or five pairs each and each pair will play every other pair in the same set. The two pairs which make the best showing in each set will play in the next round. The members of the whist team to play Yale will not be chosen wholly on the basis of their showing in the tournament, but men who play well in the tournament will be favorably considered. Entries may be made at Leavitt's until February 12 for fifty cents a man, and efforts...
...partly due to the shortened distance between the goals, necessitated by the bad condition of the ice. The Sophomores did little team work, but Metcalf and Pruyn did good individual playing. The best feature in the work of the University team was the playing of Russell and Goodridge round the goal. The teams lined up as follows: University--Goodridge, goal; Russell, point; Vanderpool, coverpoint; Hardy, Laverack, Hoxie, Beardsell, forwards. 1902 -- Perkins, goal; Stevenson, point; Metcalf, coverpoint; Winsor, Seaver (Chaffee), Burgess (Cook), Pruyn, forwards...
Professor Channing expressed no sympathy for the Boers. They were fighting not for independence, but for the right to oppress the Anglo-Saxons living in the Transvaal. The promise of naturalization was illusory and hedged round with so many restrictions that the Transvaal government could at any time make it invalid...