The Longwood Cricket Club will hold its annual tennis tournament the week beginning Monday, July 27. Singles only will be played. The prizes are a two hundred dollar challenge cup to be won three years, not necessarily in succession, also first and second prizes valued at one hundred and fifty dollars. The tournament coming in the week preceding the Nahant tournament, it is probable that the prominent New York and Philadelphia players will participate. The club will make every effort to make this, the first annual tournament, a great success. Harvard will probably be represented by the following players: Hovey, Sears, Shaw, Chase, Jennings, Tallant, Wrenn, Wildes, Orcutt, Brown.
The Horace Partridge tournament will be held the week beginning June 29, at Lee's, Auburndale, Mass. The winner of the tournament will play F. H. Hovey, L. S., for the challenge cup. Reduced rates at the hotel will probably be given to players in the tournament.
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