Word: tournament
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...liveliest matches of the Intercollegiate Tournament took place this morning. Hooker of Yale, met Thomson of Princeton; Thomson winning after a hard five set match. The two Harvard men, Whitman and Forbes, then met and Forbes won. Whitman was wearied by his recent hard work and fell an easy victim to Forbe's swift drives...
...annual fall tennis tournament for the championship of the University in singles and doubles will be held next week, beginning Tuesday, Oct. 12. Entries may be made at Leavitt and Peirce's up to Monday evening. Fee for singles $1.00; for doubles, $2.00. Matches will be two out of three sets except in the finals. The present champions, E. R. Marvin in singles, and H. J. Holt and Holcombe Ward in doubles, will defend their titles against the winners of the tournament. First and runner-up prizes will be given in both events, and a consolation prize in singles...
Harvard men kept on winning their matches in the intercollegiate tennis tournament this morning. The play consisted of a single match in the semifinals of the doubles and several in the third round of the singles. In the doubles Ward and Davis, Harvard, defeated easily Noyes and Hackett, Yale, the score standing 6-2, 6-4. In the singles, Richard Hooker, Yale, won from D. H. Fuller, Cornell, 6-3, 8-6. Leo Ware and M. D. Whitman came together and Whitman won, 6-3, 6-3. Ware made a hard effort to pull out the second set but failed...
Harvard's tennis players met with a keen disappointment here this morning when it was found that they were all drawn in the first half of the matches, bringing them together as soon as the first round was played. The Harvard men, however, give promise of winning the tournament...
...annual business meeting of the association held last evening, Clarence P. Dodge of Yale, was elected president; D. F. Davis of Harvard, vice-president, and Richard Hooker of Yale, secretary. It was voted to hold next year's tournament at New Haven...