Word: set
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...match between Chase and Lee was won entirely on its merits. Lee took the lead in the first set; with the score 4 to 1 against him, Chase changed his style of play, returning to Lee's right instead of his left hand. He won the next five games and set. In the third set, Lee played a better game and won by a score of 8 to 6, only, however, to lose the fourth set and the match...
...second round, the match between Kingsley and Jennings and Tailer and Chase was unfinished, and will be played off today. The first set resulted in a victory for Kingsley and Jennings, eight games to six. With the score five to two in their favor, Kingsley and Jennings went to pieces and by wretched playing lost the next three games. Owing to darkness further playing was postponed until today...
...freshman class at the Sheffield Scientific School is an increase of fifteen per cent. over any previous class in that department of the University. More than sixty men have entered the law school this fall making this the largest class on the records of the school. Following the example set by the other parts of the University the medical school has entered a class twice as large as that of last year...
...management of the football association has shown commendable enterprise in ridding Jarvis Field of the unsightly and unsafe row of wooden seats on the south side of the field. In their place a far more comfortable and substantial set of seats is now being built. Last year the old seats were found to be totally inadequate for the needs of the crowd coming out see the championship football games, and many and loud were the complaints on that score. The spectators will now have every opportunity of viewing a game with comfort, untormented by the constant fear of some rotten...
...athletic enterprise has been set on foot by the National Amateur Athletic Association, which promises to be one of the greatest undertakings of the kind ever attempted. The association has decided to hold a national meeting immediately before their international championship games, which take place next May. The meeting will be open to every amateur in the United States, and the winners of contests will form an international team, which will make a tour of Europe, entering all amateur championship games held in foreign countries. The team will also hold a series of games at the Paris Exposition...