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...Channing Wakefield 3L. is the present holder of the University squash title, having won the championship over W. P. Dixon '25 on March 12 of last year by the following score...
Dixon won his place in the final match by defeating Channing Wakefield 3L of the Lincoln's Inn Society yesterday afternoon, 15-5, 9-15, 15-11, 15-4. Both men played a defensive game throughout. Each realized that a hard hitting game would be fatal, and the two players depended entirely upon their skill in placing and in the variety of their shots to win. The Harvard captain proved his superiority...
...first game, the score was tied at four-all. Dixon then ran up the ncessary 15 points, dropping only one to his opponent. Wakefield paid dearly for the second game. His opponent kept him on the jump continually. Dixon saved himself for the later games and wore out the Law School man by placing his shots with care in spots most inconvenient for Wakefield to reach. The result of this treatment was especially evident in the last game in which Dixon got 14 points to Wakefield's one before the latter began to score again...
Both of the semi-final matches of the state squash tournament are scheduled to be played on the University courts today. C. C. Peabody will oppose R. A. Powers at noon it the two men can arrange the match, and W. P. Dixon '20 will meet Channing Wakefield 31 at 3 o'clock...
...Dixon '25 defeated T. C. Thacher (U. B. C.), 15-4, 17-4, 18-16; Channing Wakefield 3L. defeated D. P. Kingsley 3L., 11-15, 15-11, 15-9, 15-13; C. C. Peabody (T. & R.) defeated Myles Baker (B. A. A.), 15-7, 12-15, 15-12, 15-10; R. A. Powers (B. A. A.) defeated J. D. Du Bois...