Word: tournament
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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During the progress of the inter-collegiate tennis tournament the dressing rooms used by the players were entered and money and jewelry amounting in value to $300 was stolen...
...Andover-Exeter tennis tournament which was to have occurred yesterday was postponed on account of rain, but will take place Saturday. Stearns is Andover's representative in the singles, instead of Anderson, as announced in yesterday's CRIMSON...
Yesterday the tournament for the championship of the college began. Only singles were played. The results were as follows...
...which should be open to all American colleges. At this meeting but four colleges were represented. An invitation was extended to Harvard and Williams, but the latter, on account of the death of representive players in college, was unable to accept. In the fall of the same year, a tournament, which was to be the first of a series of annual contests, was held at Hartford. The winners were: In singles. H. A. Taylor, 86, Harvard; second, L. Thorne, '85, Yale; in doubles, Taylor and Presbey, Harvard, with Thorne and Knapp of Yale second. In the fall...
...agreed by the different members of the association that clay courts instead of turf should be used thereafter and, as a result of this vote, the place of the tournaments was changed to the grounds of the New Haven Lawn Tennis Club, on which all subsequent contests have taken place. The winners of the tournament were: Singles, Knapp of Yale and Brinley of Trinity; doubles, Knapp and Shipman of Yale, and Chase and Pratt of Amherst. By 1886, all the leading American colleges of the East had joined the association. The tournament of '86 gave first prize in singles...