Word: whist
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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CHESS AND WHIST CLUB.- There will be a meeting tonight in the rooms of the club; this will be the last meeting of the year. The constitutional amendment will be considered and a full attendance is desired...
...BULLARD, Pres.WHIST TOURNAMENT.- The first and second couples in the Whist Tournment can get their prizes today at 10 Little's, between 11 and 1 o'clock...
...rooms of the Chess and Whist Club, in the old Pudding building on Holmes field, presented an animated appearance last Tuesday evening on the occasion of the club entertaining Mr. Prentiss Cummings, of the Boston Chess Club. An invitation had been extended to all chess players in the University to be present and unite with the members in trying their strength in simultaneous games against Mr. Cummings. Thirteen men took tables, and shortly after half past seven, play began and continued until nearly midnight. The tables were arranged in two parallel rows, while Mr. Cummings walked up and down between...
Besides the players there were several spectators, who amused themselves alternately with watching the progress of the games and playing whist among themselves, and altogether the evening proved a very pleasant...
This is the third time the Chess and Whist Club has contended with Mr. Cummings. The first time they won two games out of seven; the second, one game out of eight, and last night the score at the close of the meeting stood two games won, nine lost, and two unfinished...