Word: netted
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...first set the play was very close, and the placing sharp and accurate. Both men wished to play at the net, but both were cautious about running up. The game went to the server each time till the end of the set. The second set was still harder than the first, both men playing with great care, Read perhaps a little more steadily than Wrenn...
...Read, by careful, steady play, won easily. He expected to keep his lead without difficulty, and so allowed Wrenn to get the next set 6-1 before he could recover himself. Both men were tired in the last set and played with extreme care, neither running up to the net much. Wrenn got the first two games and Read the third. From that point the score went to 3-2 in Wrenn's favor and then to 5-2. Here Read made a splendid brace and twice kept Wrenn from winning the decisive point of the match. With the score...
...semi-finals of the singles yesterday, G. L. Wrenn beat A. Ingraham, 6-3, 6-1, and J. B. Read beat A. S. Pier, 4-6, 10-8, 8-6. The latter match showed some very pretty tennis. In the first set Read started in to play net, but though he did some very clever work there, the swift drives of Pier forced him back. In the last two sets Pier's strokes became slower, and every point was hard fought. Read began to lob steadily and accurately, and the weakness which Pier showed against this style of play finally...
...Yale Financial Union has authorized its treasurer to expend, for the purpose of sending an athletic team to Oxford, twelve hundred dollars in case six men go or fifteen hundred dollars in case seven men go. The Union will in return receive one third of the net receipts of the games, the remainder to be divided equally between Oxford and the Queen's Club, on whose grounds the meeting will take place...
...which the games here have been supported is a disgrace to the class. The crowd yesterday was very small, and the net proceeds from the game amounted to just a dollar and a half. The team will end the season hundreds of dollars in debt...