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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first set Wrenn chose the serve, while Tallant and Lee had the sun on their backs. The first two games went to Lockett and Wrenn, Tallant playing often into the net. The third game went to Tallant and Lee through placing by Tallant and good back-hand strokes by Lee. Tallant and Lee won the forth and fifth, while the sixth and seventh went to Lockett and Wrenn, all four games being very poor. Locket won the eighth game by some brilliant strokes, lobbing well. Tallant and Lee then took a brace and won the next four games by good...
...distressing circumstances. On the 16th of August he attended a base ball game, and while there was playing ball with a friend, when the ball slipped through his hands, striking him between the eyes. He was taken to the hospital, and was thought to be recovering, but lock-jaw set in, and he soon died...
...through college. Although he did not rank with the highest, yet his work showed great earnestness. His father's ambition, besides having his son go through college, was to collect a library for him, and he had obtained nearly five hundred volumes when fire destroyed them all. Again he set to work, and had collected about five hundred more volumes, when this sad accident occured. The class of '88 of the Boston Latin school have passed resolutions expressing their sorrow at losing so promising a member of their class...
...semi-finals in the doubles played Saturday morning, Lee and Tallant beat Orcutt and Potter 3-6, 6-2, 6-1. The playing of Lee and Tallant in the first set was poor, and the work of all four players was very unsteady. The finals will be played today between Lee and Tallant and Lockett and Wrenn...
...semi-finals round in doubles Wrenn and Lockett beat Wildes and Kingsley 4-6, 6-2, 7-5. Wildes and Kingsley played very cautiously in the second set and did not recover in the third until the score was 5-2, against them. With the score 5 all in the eleventh game some very good plays were made, but after four deuces, a poor play of Kingsley's lost the game...