Word: round
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Five of the seeded players in the University tennis tournament have entered the round before the semi-finals without mishap. Today or tomorrow will witness the first matches between them. In the doubles, Alden Briggs 1G.B. and G. H. Perkins '26 took a close match from G. D. Debevoise '26 and P. R. Pease '26, 8-6, 6-2 entering the semi-finals. All doubles matches must be played up to the fourth round it was announced by Lyon Boston '26, manager of the tournament...
...Gordon '27 stopped E. S. Mundlin 2G.B., who promised to be the unknown quantity of the tournament, in two sets, 6-3, 6-4, and entered the sixth round. G. H. Perkins advanced to the same round with a victory over P. R. Pease '26, 6-4, 6-2. J. F. W. Whitbeck '27 eliminated Asaph Churchill '28 with the loss of but two games and will meet the winner of the W. T. Smith '26 and Norton Barber 1G, match for a place in the semi-finals...
...Union tournament is progressing slowly due to the fact that most of the players are entered in University tournament. The first round has been played off in Class A with the exception of one match, and all doubles and Class B singles matches must be off by tonight according to an announcement by G. H. Perkins '26, manager of the tournament...
...funniest place on earth, a playground for old and young," so its owners describe Steeplechase Pier at Atlantic City where one may have his hat blown off, his skirts blown up, ride on a merry-go-round, walk through a revolving barrel, slide down a chute into a wooden bowl, or scare his wits out of himself by a ride on a roller coaster?all by paying a modest admission fee of 50c. Strangely enough over the great amusement hall is built an apartment where the owners of the entertainment dwell, and where they have a little window where they...
...Mathewson could not. There were other men with the Giants besides Mathewson; occasionally they came up to bat; they did not have much else to do. While the enormous crowds shouted themselves into a frenzy, and small boys and statesmen muttered his name in their sleep-a name heard round far more of the world than the shot that began the battle of Lexington-Mathewson created a legend. He pitched three shut-out games...