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Cricket will probably receive a boom in this country next spring. Efforts are being made in England to organize a gentlemen's team of cricketers, similar to the eleven which visited this country in 1885, to play matches in Philadelphia, New York and Canada. Correspondence in regard to arrangements for the visit is now in progress. An eleven from the North of England has also arranged to visit this country next summer...
HARVARD DEFEATED.-AN EXCITING CONTEST.After the Columbia race, Harvard's boating stock seemed to take a decided boom. Everyone decided to go to New London to see the race, and as Harvard had beaten the record it was taken for granted that Yale must have to row a desperate race...
...boom for the Annex with a side list on Cambridge weather, as the poet hath...
Track athletics, strange to say, have taken a temporary boom, in view of the fact that the management have secured the huge skating rink for practice. The enthusiasts in this branch of sport, we are sorry to record, are mighty scarce in Princeton. Our record has degenerated, until now we are at the very bottom of the list of colleges. This fact, in addition to the cold water thrown on field sports by the supporters of base-ball and lacrosse, makes doubly difficult the effort to revivify the interest in the sport. We have no men of great promise...
...perfectly definite and are never disputed, umpires are provided for, and there is no opportunity for quarrelling about this nor as to where a match is to be played. Then, why should Harvard ask Princeton and Yale to form a separate league? The answer is ready enough: To boom college base-ball. How could the annual Yale-Princeton foot-ball game have become the paramount athletic event, that it has, if it were simply a game of a long series and played by two colleges of a large foot-ball league! Or, to draw an analogy from college boating, what...