Word: sectional
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Will the managers of the Whist Tournament allow a suggestion as to the manner of determining the winning two couples from each section? Two methods have been proposed, but both are opened to objection. If the decision is made on the basis of games won, the element of luck is unnecessarily large. A couple might lose two games and win the other. If they had kept their opponents' score down and made the most of their good cards, when they did come, they ought to reap the advantage...
...committee had intended that the two couples winning the most sets in each section should pass on to the second round. In response to objections, however, it wishes now to put the contestants to vote: whether the tournament shall be run on this principle, or shall be decided solely on the basis of points won from round to round. For this purpose a bluebook has been left at Bartlett's, there to remain until the end of the week. All contestants interested will please sign for one thing or the other at once...
...sections for the first round of the whist tournament have been made up as follows: Section 1. Couple 1. C. T. Tatman, R. K. Shaw. 2. W. B. Aspinwall, W. C. Widdemer. 3. E. H. Warren, W. H. McClintock. 4. C. T. Keller, T. Parker. Section 11. Couple 1. S. S. Bartlett, D. Tooker. 2. F. C. Thwaites, Humphreys. 3. M. S. Wheeler, L. W. Mott. 4. C. E. Hutchison, P. B. Goetz. Section 111. Couple 1. A. J. Boyden, L. Cobb. 2. T. D. Baldwin, E. H. Brown. 3. E. H. Clark, C. L. Bremer. 4. W. T. Denison...
Each couple will play sixteen hands with every other couple in the same section. In case of a tie score, four more hands are to be played. The results of all matches in the first round must be left in writing before March 11. with J. Rowe Webster, 6 Thayer. Authority for all disputed points is Cavendish, 20th edition. The two winning couples of each section will go into the second round...
...Annexation is consistent with the policy of the United States. - (a) The Monroe Doctrine demands that we take measures of self protection: Monroe's Seventh Annual Message in Amer. Hist. Leaflets, No. 4; Wharton, I. Section 62. - (b) Hawaii has been gravitating towards the United States for fifty years: Trib. Jan. 29, 1893; Wharton, I. Section 62. - (c) The United States has not refused acquisition of territory under favorable conditions: Cases of Louisiana, Florida, Texas, California, Alaska; Wharton, I. Section...