Word: cricket
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...when twelve colleges announced their intention of sending crews to Springfield, the college papers were eagerly scanned for all news which could have any possible bearing on the condition of their crews. The interest in boating will be none the less this year, while base-ball, foot-ball, and cricket will excite more interest than ever...
...cricket's warning song
Although the result of the second game was a bitter disappointment, it does not seem as if the Cricket Club need feel at all disheartened; for they have shown some remarkably good play, considering their resources and opportunities. Their bowling is very effective before the men become exhausted; their batting is good, and their fielding splendid. The one point in which they fail is in running the wickets. This has at times been fearfully slack and hesitating, and has given them many a needless out. The only way in which this can be remedied is to persuade enough...
...acquainted with either the people or the country which this essay so well describes. Margaret Howitt contributes a pleasant record of her residence in a country town in the Pusterthal. But of all the articles those which interested us most were those on "Salmon Fishing in Canada" and "Cricket in America." The one so attracts us that, were the time at our disposal, nothing would be esteemed a pleasanter amusement than the privilege of capturing this noble fish in the streams of the Dominion. The other is a timely article on a game which in this country is gaining ground...
...forcibly reminded that Spring has really come. The shop windows are placarded with "Spring Openings," several vernal poems have been offered for publication, and groups of Freshmen can be seen playing marbles and pitch-penny. But to us surer and more important signs are the small crowd with cricket and base-ball bats, that move toward Jarvis daily after dinner, and the smaller crowd that direct their steps toward the boat-houses just before supper...