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...third annual whist match between Yale and Harvard will be held this afternoon and evening in the Theta Delta Chi House...
...Yale team is composed of Cook '97 and Sherwood '97, Beecher '98 and D. Cameron '99 S., Cameron '99 and Bryant '99. Last week the Yale team defeated the Albany Chess and Whist Club by one point, and the Hudson Hendrick Club by 14 points, but was defeated by the Pittsfield Park Club by nine points...
...Bouve, captain of the Amercan Whist Club, will be referee...
...fully realize what careful preparation the members of the Whist Team go through for their annual match with Yale. For weeks the men who will meet Yale's representatives this evening have been steadily and conscientiously practicing, and they have had to master the principles of the short-suit and the longsuit game, since it is impossible to tell which attack the Yale men will adopt. Although a whist match is not an occasion to arouse very great enthusiasm, we should like Harvard's representatives to feel that they have the best wishes of the University for their success tonight...
...whist team has played four matches, winning two and losing two. The team lost to the Boston Duplicate Whist Club by three tricks, and to the Howell team by ten tricks, and won from the second team of the American Whist Club by five tricks; and last night from the Mercantile Library Association by six tricks. This week the team will play the Newton Whist Club, Wednesday; the Newtowne Whist Club, Thursday, and Yale, Saturday...