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After a hard series of matches played Saturday and yesterday, William W. Ingraham of Pascoag, Rhode Island, the youthful star of the Woonsocket High School, is the individual winner of the Twenty-Ninth Interscholastic Tennis Tournament. Phillips Exeter Academy, with a total of 12 points gained in the two days' playing, once more, after a lapse of two years, gained possession of the Interscholastic shield. The New Hampshire school easily led the field, the nearest competitor, Woonsocket High School, scoring 5 points, and Andover and Moses Brown School gaining 4 each. The contest for second place was the closest...
...defeating Arnold Jones Jr., who has been under the special tutelage of William T. Tilden, who is now second in the National ranking list, in two close sets, 7-5, 6-3. Only last year Jones defeated Ingraham for the National Boys' Championship. Beside being the mainstay of the Woonsocket team, Ingraham plays on the Providence Tennis Club sextet, which triumphed over the University last Wednesday. Next fall he intends to enter Exeter for a year's preparation before coming to the University...
...Woonsocket racqueter's game was featured by remarkably fast covering of the court, and the case with which he returned the driving ground strokes of his adversary. Three sets were played, the advantage staying for a time on one side, then on the other, until the last set, the final score of the match being...
...defeated Crosby, the star captain of the Andover sextet, in the third round, by the wide margin of 6-1, 6-2. By this victory Bonner is now a formidable player in the fourth round, one before the semi-finals. Living up to expectations, W. W. Ingraham of the Woonsocket High School won from DuBois of Milton in the first round, and A. W. Jones of Moses Brown School gained the third round by victories over Buck of Exeter and Leavitt of Huntington...
...result of the matches already played, Exeter leads the field with 9 points; the nearest rival is Andover with 4. Moses Brown School follows with 3, Newton High School has 2, and Woonsocket, Huntington, and Browne and Nichols have one each. With this lead Exeter, of course, is favored to win, and can only be tied if Moses Brown scores victories in every match which remains to be played...