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Yesterday afternoon the second round of the tennis tournament was played off together with the few matches which had not been played in the first and preliminary rounds. The tennis was much better than that of Wednesday, partly owing to an improvement in the condition of the courts...
Preliminary Round...
...time, but the running of the backs on Saturday was unmistakable evidence that there has got to be a rapid stride for the better, in their team play. Dibblee worked hard but failed to show up as creditably as he has in the previous games this year. On round the end plays, which have been his strong point, he was by no means a sure gainer, but in no single instance did the interference get well together. In this particular, Haughton especially seemed to run aimlessly, and to have no settled idea as to the play and where he should...
Harvard men kept on winning their matches in the intercollegiate tennis tournament this morning. The play consisted of a single match in the semifinals of the doubles and several in the third round of the singles. In the doubles Ward and Davis, Harvard, defeated easily Noyes and Hackett, Yale, the score standing 6-2, 6-4. In the singles, Richard Hooker, Yale, won from D. H. Fuller, Cornell, 6-3, 8-6. Leo Ware and M. D. Whitman came together and Whitman won, 6-3, 6-3. Ware made a hard effort to pull out the second set but failed...
Harvard's tennis players met with a keen disappointment here this morning when it was found that they were all drawn in the first half of the matches, bringing them together as soon as the first round was played. The Harvard men, however, give promise of winning the tournament...