Word: won
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Talant won the tournament, after beating the Sears brothers three sets to nothing. It was generally supposed that they would make a hard fight against Tailer and Snow. About two hundred students watched the match, which was characterized by the steady play of Lee and Talant, but the college champions were too brilliant for them. Snow volleyed strongly, while Tailer placed accurately, hitting very hard. The sets were the longest and most brilliant ever seen in Cambridge. In the third set the games were four to one against Snow and Tailer. They then won five games straight, their play calling...
Although Trinity can count but one hundred and twenty-five students, yet she has won herself an honorable position in athletics. Brinley, Paddock and Wright have well represented her in tennis. The college boasts of a nine and an eleven which have been victorious over colleges of much larger size, and it is seldom that a prize is not brought back from the Mott Haven games...
...Carter, '88 and W. Hodges, '88, have won the doubles in the Princeton tennis tournament. There were only three entries in the doubles...
...Tallant then played the Sears brothers for first prize in doubles. The match was won by Lee and Tallant...
...fall races of the Yale navy were held on Lake Saltonstall last Saturday afternoon and were unusually successful. The first event was the single scull race of a mile and a half with turn for the Cleveland cup. This was won by Bushnell, 88, in 12 minutes and 10 seconds. The second event was the one-mile straight-away race between the Academic and Sheff. freshmen. This race has heretofore been rowed in six-oared barges, but this year a change was made to eight-oared shells. On the start, the Academic freshmen got the lead and maintained...