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...University tennis team gained its 11th victory of the season yesterday afternoon by blanking M. I. T. 6-0. Four of the matches were easily won by the Crimson players in straight sets, but the first two contests were strenuous three-set battles. The match between Captain G. W. Helm '20 and H. Brockman, the opposing leader, was the feature of the afternoon, the former, by his superior serving and net work finally triumphing 11-9, 1-6, 6-4. L. A. de Turenne '21, playing No. 2, also had a hard contest against W. A. Cauldwell, whom he defeated...
...fastest match of the afternoon was that in which Tilden encountered Captain G. W> Helm '20, and in two hard sets defeated him 6-3, 6-2. In an exciting three-set match, L. A. deTurenne '21, conquered Dana, a mainstay of the Providence raqueters...
...doubles a sensational match was furnished by Helm and deTurenne playing against Tilden and Owen, the latter finally winning 7-5; 6-1. With the score 5-4 in the visitors favor, a last battle developed between Fenno and Hyams, and Curley and Dana, resulting in a three-set victory for the Providence combination, and deciding the match against the Crimson...
...University tennis team was defeated by the Longwood Cricket Club, 7 matches to 2, on Divinity Field, yesterday afternoon. Without an exception, the matches were very close, four of them requiring three-set decisions. The best of the individual matches, in point of the class of tennis exhibited, was that in which Captain R. N. Williams, 2d, '16 defeated N. W. Niles '09, 6-4, 6-4. G. P. Gardner '10 and G. C. Caner '17 played the closest match of the occasion, Gardner winning by the score of 7-5, 12-14, 6-4. Every point was hotly contested...
...Yale, and Thayer of Pennsylvania, respectively; but Nickerson was defeated by Johnson of Pennsylvania, the winner of the championship. Sweetser alone survived the third round, thereby winning his way into the semi-finals, while Gardner, showing a reversal of form, was defeated by Long, of California, in a three-set match, 6-3, 6-3, 6-1. In the semi-final round Sweetser put up a great fight but was finally beaten by Long after four hard sets, 6-4, 6-8, 6-4, 11-9. In the final round, Johnson won the championship after playing five close sets with...