Word: matches
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...team, for without a good coach it is certain that no such good showing would have been made. It is encouraging to know that both coaches and most of the men on the team will be back next year, and if a captain can be found to match Captain Rand for all around ability, next season's record should be even better than the one made this spring...
...finals for the championship will be played between Shaw and Sargent this afternoon. The finals in the consolation match will be played between Clark and Harris on Tuesday afternoon...
This morning at 10 o'clock the University tennis team will meet Yale in a dual match at the Longwood Cricket Club, Brookline. Each team will be composed of six men. There will be six matches in singles and three in doubles, each match counting one point...
Yesterday afternoon N. W. Niles '09 won the College championship in tennis for the fourth successive year by defeating A. Sweetser '11, 6-3, 7-5, 6-1. The match was played at the Longwood Cricket Club in Brookline...
Niles won the first and third sets without much effort, but in the second set Sweetser showed good form and the match was very close. The service of both players was very good, but Niles's play at the net was superior to Sweetser's and his overhead work surer. Sweetser's chief weakness lay in the fact that he neglected to go to the net when an opportunity was offered him, and that he often allowed Niles to get to the net when he might have kept him in the back of the court...