Word: turf
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...plan which will give the Tennis Association a place in the regard of every student as high as that now occupied by the H. A. A. or the Boat Club. The mind's eye is filled with a pleasing picture of the future. A half-score of fine, level turf courts, and three or four times as many of hard roofed clay, scattered over the unused portions of Holmes and Jarvis fields, copying the portions not devoted to other sports, will present a pretty picture when of a pleasant May afternoon they are occupied by a hundred and fifty players...
...Cricket Association has been granted the opposite end of Holmes Field from that occupied by the B. B. Association and enclosed by the track. It proposes early in the spring to turf a piece of ground there large enough for practice, and is now arranging matches with the neighboring clubs. Practice will be granted every afternoon to all members of the Association, whether members of the team or not, and no one will be allowed to play on the team or otherwise who has not joined the Association. The membership fee is $2.25, and may be paid and shingles obtained...
...migrated to a ground called the new or middle ground, near North Bank, Regent's Park. Three years later the Regent's Canal was cut through the ground, and Lord removed to the ground now owned by the Marylebone Club in St, John's Wood road. The original turf used in Dorset square was taken up, so says Mr. Lilly white, with each removal, and consequently when the Marylebone Club played on June 22, 1814, their first important match, defeating Hertfords hire in one inning, they played on the same turf as that which years before had afforded foot-hold...
...Etonians," and of other Clubs similarly constituted, may be seen players who get over the ground with an agility, and charge their opponents with a hardihood, perfectly astounding for their years. To watch some of these veterans limping out of a furious "maul," or rolling on the muddy turf, would give a stranger, no doubt, a high opinion of the vivacity and pluck of our countrymen ; but to one of philosophical bent-such a one, for example, as Mr. Max O'Rell (who has indeed branded the game as "fit only for savages")-the spectacle might also have a ludicrous...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON :-Your tennis correspondent in the Friday edition suggested in answer to your invitation, that the courts be made of earth in place of the usual turf; though he admitted the latter to be the better, he advocated the former. There is no reason why we should not have courts of good turf, and my plan is this : that early next spring the ground be sodded and that a man be employed, whose duty it will be to keep the ground in order, and protect the place from that immortal nuisance, the Cambridge mucker...