Word: tournaments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the loss of only two matches out of the 20 played in their progress through the tournament, the University Racquet wielders swept aside the opposition on the Racquet Club courts in Washington, D.C. to retain the National Team Championship for another year. After successively defeating Baltimore, Chicago, and Boston last Saturday and Sunday the Crimson squad downed the Philadelphia court team in the final match yesterday by a 4 to 1 score. After the match the team elected Herbert Noel Rawlins '27 of New York City, College title holder, who performed brilliantly throughout the championship play, as captain...
...Crimson racquet men had little difficulty in dropping Baltimore and Chicago on the opening day of the tournament but lost one game to both Boston and Philadelphia on the following days. Bray of the Newton Center squad, playing for Boston, was the first to break the string of Crimson victories with a win over L.S. Haskins '26 last Sunday. In the final match Keele of Philadelphia inflicted the second loss against T.E. Jansen '26, in a tight struggle. S.P. Clark '14, who downed Captain G.D. Debevoise '26, in the semi-finals last year for the only University loss...
...final match of the State tournament, with the two hardest hitting players in the tournament opposing each other, brought out the best squash of the competition. The champion, who reached the top of his game last week after a slow start, matched power and speed with his younger opponent. In the last game with the veteran leading by a 10-2 margin, Wright made a desperate attempt to pull the match out of the fire by discarding his hard driving game and attacking Baker's weakness on high, slow lobs to the back hand. The Crimson number one man pulled...
With the exception of Assistant Manager L. H. Gordon '27, H. N. Rawlins '27, and P. M. Lenhart '27, who will leave tonight, the state championship University squad entrained for Washington, D. C. last night, to enter the national team championship tournament. Coach Harry Cowles, Captain G. D. Debevoise '26, R. S. Wright '26, L. S. Haskins '26, and T. T. Jansen '26 are the members of the team who left Cambridge last night and will arrive at the Racquet Club of Washington, D. C., this morning where the matches will be played. The Crimson racquet wielders will stay...
...played as hard as I could. She took three games in the second set. Critics said that I was better in this match than in any other here so far. . . . Suzanne Lenglen said that "circumstances over which she had no control might prevent her meeting me in the tournament at Nice." Well, if she doesn't play me then, she must in the Carleton Hotel tournament here...