Word: tieing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...game between Dickson and Chamberlin and Brown and Mulford has not yet been played. The winners will be tied with two other couples for second place. The games in the play-off in both sections must be finished before Wednesday, March 13. They will be governed by the same rules as before, except that contestants will be required to keep account of games as well as matches. In case of another tie in the number of matches won, the pair winning the most games will be entitled to enter the final round. Matches in this round may be played...
...Canada are in the United States because of the large number of Canadian born who are residing here.- No. Am. Rev., vol. 136, p. 326; C. Richmond Smith on "Immigration" in Pol. Science Quar., June, 1888. (a) Canada, through these emigrants, is bound to the United States by the tie of mutual friendship...
...that Princeton has held the championship since 73, nine times, or since '77, when the league was founded, six times; while Yale has held it since '73, seven times, and since '77, five times. It has always been agreed that if in any year the issue should be a tie, the college which held the championship the year before should retain it. These facts should be well known and we should be satisfied if every one knew them, but as long as the record is distorted as it has been, the truth cannot be known. We recall and repeat...
...executive committee of the N. A. A. A. have adopted the following rule in regard to tug-of-war competitions: "Anchor man shall not use any device for holding the rope, but a belt may be used to protect the body. No knot or tie of any kind shall be made in the rope, nor shall the rope be passed more than once around the anchor's body...
...final round of the chess tournament has been completed and has proved a surprisingly close contest among the three leading players. F. M. Brown, '90, S. W. Sturgis, '90, and F. M. Nicolls, '92, were all tied for first place with five games won, one lost, and one drawn. They then played a special series, but this, as before, resulted in a tie, for Sturgis beat Brown, Nicolls beat Sturgis, and Brown beat Nicolls. The scores of the other players are as follows: Webster won 5, lost 2; Chamberlin won 3, lost 4; Black won 2, lost 5; Taussig...