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...chess players of the Chess and Whist Club have been invited to visit the rooms of the Boston Chess Club, 33 Pemberton Square, Boston, this evening, and engage in a friendly contest. All the Harvard men will play separate games simultaneously against Mr. Prentiss Cummings, one of the strongest players of the Boston Club. The Chess and Whist Club has accepted the invitation, as it will give a good chance to compare strength with outside players, and will send the following delegation: H. Webster, Gr., R. D. Brown, '90, L. W. Chamberlin, '90, O. Everett, '91, H. A. Davis...
...contest for the Founders' Cup, Quinlan and McKay tied on 12 out of 15 birds, and in the shoot-off Quinlan...
...Association will hold a sparring meeting at the Club on Thursday, February 28th, at 8 p. m. Representatives from Harvard, School of Technology, Young Men's Christian Association and Union are invited to compete. All sparrers must be strictly amateur, and none others will be allowed to enter the contest. Entries will close at 7 p. m. Saturday, Feb. 23d, and those desiring to compete will send their names, addresses and weights to William Appleton, Athletic Club, Exeter street, Boston. Prizes will be silver medals. All contestants will please be at the club at 7.30 p. m., at which time...
Harvard has heretofore sent many men to contest at these sports, which have proved very interesting, and now that the Boston Athletic Club is free to compete, an additional inducement is offered for a larger delegation from Harvard...
Among the societies which have risen this year from a state of torpor to activity, one of the most progressive is the Chess and Whist Club. After a close and interesting tournament, in which all members of the University were invited to contest, the club has started a whist tournament which promises to be equally successful. The proposed chess match with an outside club will also be watched with interest by the college. We congratulate the club upon its enterprise and success, which show that other scientific games, besides the various branches of athletic sports, have a firm foot-hold...