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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Latham's fine fielding at second was one of the features of the game; a most brilliant fly catch marking his play. Tyng, as usual, sustained his reputation at the bat. Nunn and Alger played well for the Beacons in the field; while Moore carried off the honors at the bat. The element of the "unwashed" predominated so largely among the audience, and made itself so decidedly objectionable, that the officers of the Base-Ball Club have decided to rope the field in and have police-men in attendance at the game to-morrow. Below is the score...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BASE-BALL. | 4/5/1878 | See Source »

...next number of the Crimson will contain plans, views, and a description of the new Gymnasium-Subscribers will receive their copies as usual; but the price of papers sold over the counter will be 25 cents...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 4/5/1878 | See Source »

Great Amateur Regatta. The Watkins Regatta Association will, near the end of May, hold at Watkins Glen, N. Y., a grand regatta, open to all amateurs of America. In addition to the usual races, there will be three special trial-races for fours, pairs, and singles, over a straightaway course of one mile and five-sixteenths, the exact length of the regatta course at Henley, England. The winners of these three trials will, at the expense of the Regatta Committee, be sent to compete at Henley, and other regattas in England, and at the Paris International races...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR SPORTING COLUMN. | 3/22/1878 | See Source »

...second day's sports in the Gymnasium last Saturday afternoon filled the little building to a most uncomfortable degree. Fortunately for the contestants, if not for many others, the request that gentlemen would not smoke was strictly observed, and the air was not so stifling as usual...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SECOND MEETING OF THE H. A. A. | 3/22/1878 | See Source »

...Gaskill, '78, is trying to find money enough to get married on. Guess he won't succeed unless he employs more skill than usual, and refrains from gasing about it all the time. If we did not know him, we would lend him enough to tie the knot. We think we could borrow that much! Let your courage, wax - we were almost tempted to say something about waxing your mustache, but we remember...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 2/23/1878 | See Source »

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