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...semi-finals on Friday afternoon, Averill, Harvard, defeated Stuart, Princeton, 5 up 4 to play, and Pyne, Princeton, defeated Hitchcock, Yale, 1 up. On Saturday Pyne had the better of in the morning round up to the turn, when he was two up. At the first tee Averill drove the better ball, but over-pitched on his mashie shot falling in the trap bunker beyond the green. It cost him two to get out of the bunker, and Pyne won the hole, 5-7. Averill won the second hole, 3-4, through Pyne's indifferent putting. Both men made...
...slaves in 1830, new friction arose, and the great migration of the Boers from Cape Colony to the northeast began. The Boers claimed independence from England, but the latter power proclaimed all the Boers' territory English soil up to the Vaal River. This action on the part of England drove many of the Boer farmers to cross the Vaal, where they set up a government for themselves, England consenting at the Sand River Convention, held in 1852. The next advance movement of the English came in 1877, when an armed force was sent into the Transvaal to suppress an uprising...
...Davis 1900 won the spring tennis tournament yesterday, defeating R. A. Bidwell '99 three straight sets, 6-0, 6-2, 10-8. Bidwell was helpless in the first two sets; he continually drove into the net or out of the court, while Davis played a slow, steady game, never allowing himself to be pushed and with Bidwell fully under his control...
...fairly strong, southeast wind blew across the court, which made out-of-court drives rather frequent. Although Wright's playing was remarkably steady, Hawes continually drove the ball into the net, or over the back line...
...Harvard golf team won the intercollegiate individual championship on the Ardsley links Saturday, defeating John Reid, Jr., of Yale in the finals, by 5 holes and 4 to play. His victory was due to his remarkable accuracy in judging his approaching and putting shots, as the Yale man usually drove much further...