Word: championship
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...annual fall tennis tournament for the championship of the University will begin on Thursday, Oct. 12. Cups will be offered as prizes. The entry fees will be $1.00 for the singles, and 50 cents each for the doubles. Blue books for the entries have been placed at Leavitt's and Sanborn's, and will be kept open until Wednesday...
...Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Columbia golf teams will be held on Oct. 25 on the links of the Garden City Golf Club, Garden City, Long Island. The competition will be decided by match plays in rounds, and there will be both a team prize and an individual championship cup. The teams will each consist of six men. In the individual championship, the contestants qualify who make the eight best scores in eighteen holes, at medal. The finals will be at thirty-six holes...
Besides the cup for the intercollegiate championship, which Harvard has won for the last five years, there is this year a trophy valued at $1,500, which will be competed for in a cable match between an American college team and an Oxford or Cambridge team...
...probably be held on alternate Saturdays during October and November, and will be for the purpose of developing material for the intercollegiate season. From the winners of the matches will be chosen the six men who will play against the Yale, Princeton and Columbia golf teams for the intercollegiate championship. By agreement among the four college clubs, the championship match will be held at Morristown, N. J., during the latter part of next month. Among the men now in College who may be considered as possible candidates for this fall's team are: G. C. Clark '01, J. G. Averell...
...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...