Word: tournaments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...team for two years H.H. Lisker is another likely racquet-wielder. He captured the Interscholastic Championship of Rhode Island in 1924 and 1925, and was twice captain of the team which won the Gilden Cup in Providence, Robeson Bailey, winner of the Freshman championship in last fall's tournament, will be out for the team together with J.H. Appleton, a member of the 1929 squash team...
...Wright '26 showed exceptional form yesterday afternoon at the University Squash Courts when he defeated H. N. Rawlins '27 18 to 13, 11 to 15, 15 to 8, and 15 to 9 in the semi-finals of the University Squash Tournament. Rawlins, last year's University champion, played a clever game, but he was unable to cope with Wright's smashing drives. The winner's superior strength began to tell in the third and fourth games which he won with comparative ease...
...father of the boy who did it,, but other boys in the United States could do the same." A promoter in Manhattan offered young Silverman $5,000 for three matches in Manhattan. Two days later, one William Hughes of Waterbury, Conn., drubbed Silverman in the final bout of the tournament...
...England and Canada. He spends a good deal of time playing racquets here and there, and no man has been able to beat him for six years, although for at least twelve years a certain Stanley Mortimer has tried to do it in the finals of every racquets tournament. Last week the apparently permanent champion and the obviously perpetual runner-up faced each other in the Racquet and Tennis Club of Boston. And for the first time in six years the runner-up beat the champion...
...bouts, Pennsylvania took the lead with five victories out of the 12 matches. The Nassau squad captured second place with four wins and the University trio finished third with three triumphs. The Princeton squad, coached by William Roper, Tiger football mentor, gave a creditable exhibition in the initial major tournament of its first season of intercollegiate competition...