Word: winning
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Campbell, the Trinity tennis expert, won the City Gates trophy, in the Florida tournament. The Herald says he will probably win the American championship...
...league match, deserves to be adopted. While this plan would subtract from general use a rather large proportion of the good courts, the loss would be more than counterbalanced by the advantages gained, and especially the stimulus to better play. It will become an object not only to win future tournaments, but to make a creditable showing in them; and thus many of the less prominent players will be spurred to harder work, and the general standard of tennis at Harvard will be raised. To the best players the advantages will be equally great, for they will be able...
...this year, while Harvard, who until 1887, had won successfully for seven years, having sustained a very serious loss in the graduation of most of her team, seems to stand a very poor chance. Yale will surely take four firsts. Harvard, Columbia and U. of P. will each win two or three, while Princeton also will come in for her share...
...chance to compete. The present plan is to arrange a series of games between the nines of the preparatory schools which are situated in or very near Boston. Then a team picked from the best players of these nines is to play a game on Jarvis Field with the winning nine of the annual Andover-Exeter game. It is not yet surely known whether or not Andover and Exeter will enter into the scheme, but there is every reason to suppose that they will readily consent to form a part of the association. The Andover and Exeter men in college...
...Perry, have been training steadily for the past week, and intend to allow about an hour every day up to the time of the winter meetings for pulling on the rope and exercising with the chest-weights. Though '89 in former years has been unsuccessful in her attempts to win the laurel for the tug-of-war contests, she will not lose it this year without a more severe effort than ever before...