Word: yesterday
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Ware '99 won the tennis championship of the State yesterday, on the courts of the Longwood Cricket Club, by defeating H. Ward 1900, 6-3, 4-6, 6-3, 6-1. Neither player was in especially good form. Ward was particularly erratic. His back hand strokes were never sure and a fatal tendency of driving into the net lost him many points. Ware played fairly good tennis, but was inclined to play into his opponent's hands...
...comers' match of the Rifle and Pistol Club held yesterday afternoon E. L. Pruyn '98 shot a score of 98, breaking the club record previously held by C. H. Taylor...
...Henry Van Dyke of New York, delivered the baccalaureate sermon to the Senior class in Appleton Chapel yesterday afternoon, taking for his text, Matthew 5; 13, "Ye are the salt of the earth...
...first four rounds of the Longwood Tennis Tournament were played yesterday morning and afternoon at the Cricket Club grounds. In the last round L. E. Ware '99 defeated M. D. Whitman '99 rather easily by the score of 6-4, 6-2. In the other matches McKittrick defeated Warland 4-6, 6-5, 6-2; Read defeated Bradley 6-2, 6-5; Pier '95 defeated Wright 6-2, 6-3. The other Harvard entries were defeated in the earlier rounds...
...annual regatta of the Metropolitan A. R. A. was yesterday held on the Charles River under almost perfect weather conditions and the Weld won six of the eight races. The only outside winner was Sydney West of the Hull B. C., who defeated C. A. Hurley of the Weld in the novice singles. In the junior four-oared race, the Weld made a new record of 9 m. 11 2-5s. for the mile and a half course, beating the former record of 9m. 17 2-5s., made in '95 by the B. A. A. four. The last...