Word: tournament
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...turf courts of the Tennis Association on the south end of Holmes Field will be opened, weather permitting, on Monday next, at 2.30 P.M., with the first rounds of the annual spring tournament. As is customary winners of previous tournaments will be barred from competition in the single matches, which, in this instance, bars Messrs. Presbrey, '85, and Taylor, '86. The double tournament is free to all. This is a change from the previous custom made by reason of the fact that the winning pair in the fall tournament is never looked upon as champion in the same sense...
...following are the principal records made at the spring tournament at Exeter on Saturday: One hundred yards dash, Macpherran, '87, 11s; one mile walk, Murphy, '87, 9m. 5s.; throwing base ball, Kelly, '85, 358ft. 6 in; 220 yards dash, Macpherran, '87, 25s; putting shot, 16lbs., Cook, '85, 31 1 2ft; throwing hammer, 16lbs., Cook, '85, 69ft. 10 1-2 in.; standing broad jump, Cook, '85, 9ft. 3in.; running high jump, Mear, '86, 4ft. 7in.; running broad jump, Macpherran, '87, 14ft. 9in.; one mile run, Harding...
...officers of the Inter-Collegiate Tennis Association met in New Haven early this week. The constitution was improved principally in the wording, and will be submitted to the association next fall. The votes of the different members on the place for the tournament to be held next fall were opened, and it was found that the new grounds of the New Haven club had been selected, in preference to those of Harvard by a vote...
...Young America Cricket Club of Germantown will hold their annual games on May 2nd. They will be open to all amateurs. Besides the ordinary games there will be a tennis tournament...
...easy to defraud the association. A player can transfer from one court to a better one by paying the necessary increased amount, but in no case shall a player be stopped after any length of play on a court. The grass courts will be opened by the annual spring tournament of the college, from which in the singles all players who have previously won a college or inter-collegiate single tournament are barred, thus giving a great chance...