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Haverford, Pa., Oct. 4.--In the second day's play of the intercollegiate tennis tournament. on the courts of the Merion Cricket Club, the Harvard players won three matches and lost one, leaving B. S. Prentice '05 and J. I. B. Larned '05 in the semi-finals of the singles and F. J. Sulloway '05, H. H. Whitman '06, Larned, and Prentice in the first round of the doubles. One of the features of the play today was the defeat of Rendell, the Princeton champion, by Prentice. H. H. Whitman '06 was defeated by R. Leroy of Columbia...
...semi-final tomorrow Prentice will play Dewhurst of Pennsylvania and Larned will play Leroy of Columbia...
...annual tournament of the United States National Lawn Tennis Association at Newport, Clothier, Ward and Leonard reached the semi-final round, Wright having been put in the fifth round by Larned, 6-1, 6-0, 6-3. Clothier defeated Larned in the hardest fought match of the tournament, 6-4, 3-6, 2-6, 6-2, 6-3, but was defeated in the finals by Ward in straight sets, 10-8, 6-4, 9-7, the latter having qualified by his defeat of Leonard...
...Morse '07 defeated T.B. Dorman '06 in the other half of the semi-finals, 6-4, 8-6. Morse played well at the net and kept Dorman in the back of the court by clever passing. Dorman's lobs were short and Morse handled them well. Both players were handicapped by frequent gusts of wind...
...first round of the interclass tournament will be played today at 2 o'clock. C. W. Blossom '04 will play B. S. Prentice '05, and T. B. Dorman '06 will play J. M. Morse '07. The two winners will meet in the finals for the University championship tomorrow. The semi-final rounds today will be for the best two out of three sets, and the final round for the best three out of five sets...