Word: tournament
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Freshman squash team moved into second place in the State Class C squash racquets interclub tournament by defeating the Union Boat Club Saturday afternoon by a score...
Ithaca, N. Y., March 2.--Captain B. H. Whitbeck '29 of the Harvard tennis team and M. T. Hill '30 today reached the double semi-finals of the second annual Intercollegiate Indoor Tennis Tournament. Their advancement places Harvard in a close race for second honors in the tourney. Princeton with continued singles victories has amassed enough points to make it sure of the team trophy...
...feature of the tournament was the singles match between Hill and J. W. Van Ryn of Princeton, a Davis Cup player, in which the Harvard player lost out, 6-4, 6-3 in a contest replete with fast playing. Hill had, in the second round of the tourney, defeated McDonald of Swarthmore 6-4, 6-3. Both Hill and Van Ryn drew byes in the opening round and their match in the third bracket was closely followed by the spectators. Arthur Ingraham '30 succumbed to Lavine of Pennsylvania in the first round after a hard fought match...
Harvard is leading Lehigh, Pennsylvania, and Williams in a hard battle for runner up in the tournament...
Coach Cowles, in discussing last year's tournament, pointed out that it was the third time Harvard had won a national tennis tournament in its opening year. The first instance was at the first national amateur lawn tennis tournament in 1881 when R. D. Sears '83 became national champion. The second time was in 1883 when Harvard won the first National Intercollgeiate tennis tournament in both singles and doubles matches