Word: semi
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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HAVERFORD, PA., Oct. 7.--The Harvard players were all defeated in the second round of singles and doubles, of the intercollegiate tennis tournament, held here today. This defeat ends Harvard's chances of winning, as the Harvard team will now take no part in the semi-final rounds still to be played...
...colleges still left in the tournament, Columbia has two men in the singles, and Yale and Pennsylvania each have one. In the doubles, Yale, Pennsylvania, and Columbia have each a pair, who will compete in the semi-finals...
...that of the curved part, have, in general, been decided upon. The width, at any point, from the outer wall to the inner parapet will be 95 feet, the length of the straight side 363 feet, and the distance from side to side 230 feet. The bow will be semi-circular, with a radius of 115 feet for the inner circle or parapet, and a radius of 210 feet for the outer circle or outer wall...
Harvard won the championship last year in both the singles and the doubles, thereby winning two points of the seven required to obtain possession of the cup offered by the Merion Cricket Club. In the singles, Harvard players alone reached the semi-finals, and W. J. Clothier '04, won the tournament. In the finals of the doubles, Clothier and E. W. Leonard '03 defeated Wright and Larned of Princeton...
...third in the finals. Converse and Behr were both handicapped in their races; the former from lack of practice, the latter from being badly spiked on Friday. Haigh ran a beautiful race in the quarter-mile, having it well in hand from the start. Bird, in the semi-finals of the high hurdles, running, up to the seventh hurdle, practically a dead heat with Clapp for first place, twisted a ligament in his leg, and so failed to qualify for what seemed a certain score in the finals...