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...Nine, Wednesday's game with the Beacons being such an improvement on the disgraceful exhibitions at New Bedford and Boston. The weakest point seems to be the batting, only one base-hit being made in the whole game, and many of the men seeming to be surprised into striking. Although we much admired the catcher's cool playing Wednesday, we doubt whether he has the requisite strength for the position; could not the catcher of the Beacons be induced to play? We also need at least one active man in the field who will cover a tolerable amount of ground...
...entering a crew will be carefully considered next year after the experiment has been tried for the first time. We should not desire to see anything interfere with the annual race with Yale, but if a crew could be entered without doing this it might be worth while. Although Harvard and Yale send no crews to the regatta this year, Columbia and Cornell will each be represented by an eight and a four, and Princeton, Bowdoin, and Wesleyan will also send crews. There are certainly great advantages in having a regatta of this sort under competent management, and from...
...must be confessed that last Saturday's meeting of the Athletic Association, although good in comparison with the first, fell far short of last year's standard. The number of entries, to be sure, was encouraging; but, when we take into consideration the number of men in the University who are competent to enter, we have to admit that those who declare that too much time is given to muscular development at Harvard cannot have attended this year's meetings. It is also to be regretted that some of those who did enter seemed to have given little time...
...fairly well filled, and those present were able to see a much better exhibition than the preceding. Altogether there were fifteen - not three - entries; but it was evident that several of those who entered had not given much time to training, and presented themselves merely to fill up. Although this is better than no entries at all, it certainly does not tend to raise the standard of our records, which, after all, is - or rather ought to be - the ambition of those who represent Harvard's athletic interests...
...next event - two-hand vaulting - proved popular, and five men entered, - Messrs. W. Watson, '81, F. F. Sneathen, L. S., H. N. Fowler, '80, J. L. Paine, '81, and C. H. W. Foster, '81. The vaulting was in "fence" fashion, although the proportion of fence was somewhat meagre. The bar was first placed at 5 feet 3 inches, and raised three inches each time. All the men cleared it easily, until the height reached was 6 feet 3 inches, when Mr. Paine failed to get over. At the next peg Mr. Fowler dropped from the list, and as none...