Word: trip
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although the University tennis team was defeated 4 to 3 in their final match of the Southern trip by the powerful Baltimore Country Club organization, the Crimson was victorious by overwhelming scores in all of their other matches. The players enjoyed extraordinarily good weather every day but Friday, when the scheduled contest with the Dunbarton Club at Washington had to be cancelled because of rain...
Leaving Cambridge on Saturday, the University racquet wielders met the Agawam Hunt Club of Providence that afternoon in their first contest of the trip, and easily defeated them by the score of 6 to 2. Captain Pfaffmann was unable to finish his match with J. D. E. Jones Jr., after the latter player had won the first...
...match with the Dunbarton Club on Friday was cancelled because of inclement weather, and the following day the team journeyed to Baltimore, where they concluded their southern trip with a defeat at the hands of the Baltimore Country Club team, headed by John Howard, captain of the Princeton tennis team this year. W. W. Ingraham was unable to play in this match, and Captain Pfaffmann occupied the position of first singles. Opposing Howard, he was defeated 6-4, 6-2. In the doubles matches, Palmer Dixon and Alden Briggs defeated John Howard and T. L. Goldsborough in a long gruelling...
With true Oriental courtesy, Rondi's challenge read: "I read with indignation and disgust your infamous articles on your recent trip to Sicily. As a citizen of Glorious Palermo, famed for its courtesy, I notify you herewith that I consider your ears boxed...
...first the trip from New York City to Albany was made always on river steamboats. Presently, however, the Hudson River Railroad, running up the eastern bank, was constructed, as well as one on the western bank. These independent lines were purchased in 1863, after a historic struggle in the stockmarket by Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt. A few years afterwards, he also acquired the New York Central, and thus consolidated the route to Lake Erie...