Word: vliet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Deal. Tennis. Intercollegiate Championship-Won by Berkeley Bell, University of Texas; at Merion Cricket Club, Haverford, Pa.* Women's Intercollegiate Championship†-Won by Marjorie Gladman, University of Southern California; at Boston's Longwood Cricket Club. U. S. Army Championship-Won by Maj. Robert C. Van Vliet, infantryman, Panama Canal Zone (three-time title holder); at Washington's Columbia Country Club. Polo. Intercollegiate Championship-Won by Harvard University; at Philadelphia...
Halfway through the period Austin duplicated his performance, this time with the support of the entire forward line, and the score stood two to nothing in favor of the Crimson. At this point the visitors braced and individual sallies by Van Vliet and Yates kept the crowd in a tremor. The Harvard defense proved impregnable, however, and halfway through the period Coach Winsor called off his entire first-string combination. Hamilton lost its best chance to score shortly afterwards when Yates broke loose and passed to Nicholson. The latter's shot missed fire only because of Newell's unusual alertness...
Cornelius van Vliet played Saint Saens's The Swan on that big fiddle, the 'cello, and U. Buldrini played his composition, The Grandmother's Dream, on that bigger fiddle, the double bass...