Word: tournament
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...chess tournament between Princeton, Columbia, Yale and Harvard is to be held at the Manhattan Chess Club rooms in New York some time this spring; the date has not yet been decided on definitely...
...made four stunning home runs, and played his base perfectly." The score in this match, 56-4, led the Lowells who had only defeated this same club, 47-29, to reconsider the remark of their captain, - that the "Lowells didn't believe thay would enter the New England tournament, as no club would care to try them...
...points won by the cootestants in the high-jumping tournament at Yale are as follows: Bayard, 29; Knapp, 28; Shearman, 25; Waite, 16; Sherwood, 19; Berger, 13; Magruder, 11; Robinson, 11; Ireland, 6; Sage 5 and Tracy, 3. The fifth trial will be held in the gymnasium next Saturday. The highest jump that has been made thus...
During the year "great efforts were made," says the Advocate, "to arrange a base-ball tournament between all the eastern colleges; such a tournament to be held every year at Worcester, and to have a silver ball as the prize for that college which should beat the most games." "The colleges which have proved true to their agreements" (in this matter,) said the Hamilton Campus, "are Harvard, Dartmouth and Hamilton. The prospect of an exciting and satisfactory contest being thus defeated by the withdrawal of Yale, Princeton and Williams, it has been thought best to indefinitely postpone the tournament...
...last Monday evening and the one to be given by the Andover Club next Saturday together with various other events of the kind, show the social activity that for the moment replaces that of the out-door athletics. The university Chess Club is now in the midst of a tournament for which there were thirty-one entries and which bids fair to result in a close and interesting contest; and a strong competition for the various papers and literary magazines is making itself apparent. The "Banner" for 1886-7 will be ready for sale this week, and will undoubtedly...