Word: turfing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...turf courts of the Tennis Association on the south end of Holmes Field will be opened, weather permitting, on Monday next, at 2.30 P.M., with the first rounds of the annual spring tournament. As is customary, winners of previous tournaments will be barred from competition in the single matches, which, in this instance, bars Messrs. Presbrey, '85, and Taylor, '86. The double tournament is free to all. This is a change from the previous custom made by reason of the fact that the winning pair in the fall tournament is never looked upon as champion in the same sense...
...turf courts of the Tennis Association on the south end of Holmes Field will be opened, weather permitting, on Monday next, at 2.30 P.M., with the first rounds of the annual spring tournament. As is customary winners of previous tournaments will be barred from competition in the single matches, which, in this instance, bars Messrs. Presbrey, '85, and Taylor, '86. The double tournament is free to all. This is a change from the previous custom made by reason of the fact that the winning pair in the fall tournament is never looked upon as champion in the same sense...
HARVARD POLO CLUB. It is earnestly requested that no member of the Polo Club play upon the grounds at Watertown before further notice is given, owing to the present softness of the turf...
...clay courts will be provided with durable poles, to which players for the present will affix their own nets, though the association hope to make a change in this in the future. For the turf courts, both poles and nets will be provided by the association, and set up by the man in charge, as it is necessary to be careful about the turf...
...plans for the new courts have now been definitely laid out, and work will be begun within the week, or as soon as the frost leaves the ground. Nine turf courts are to be laid out on the southeast corner of Jarvis Field, at an expense of $943.50, and five clay courts of various sorts are to belaid out on Holmes Field, east of the track, at an expense of $300. One of these courts will be chosen as pattern for 30 more clay courts, which will be laid out during this present summer on various parts of Homes...