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...order to keep the catcher up. A passed ball sent him across the plate and Henshaw to third. All hopes were centred on Edgerly, but he struck out, after having knocked six fouls to different parts of the field. The excited Yale men rushed in upon the field and bore the nine off on their shoulders...
...Allen behind the plate made our battery ineffective, and though Henshaw faced Nichols' terrible delivery most pluckily, the team was demoralized. Stagg and Dann were the saving points of Yale's team; Brigham played a good game in left field, but the others did not distinguish themselves. Edgerly bore off the honors for Harvard, and Foster and Wiestling also did excellent work. The umpiring was inconceivably bad. Grant seemed determined to made every decision against Harvard, his ruling on Allen's foul being more than usually flagrant. It is a poor excuse to offer for a defeat that the umpire...
...dogged pluck she exhibits in athletics; but gentlemanly enthusiasm is almost as effective, and far more graceful for college men, than the bear-garden behavior in vogue at cocking mains and prize fights. It is one of the most creditable things in '89's record that she bore all this abuse patiently, without attempting to retaliate in the slightest degree. She may feel sure that the college considers her entitled to a most ample and public apology from the members of the Yale nine which connives at such treatment of visitors, and the college which participates in, and sanctions...
...ballots cast for '88 members of the yard committee yesterday, bore the names of the three coxswains in that class, and below the motto, "Non Marte sed Arte...
...that ever took place on the course. Before twelve o'clock people had began to gather in rear windows on Beacon street, and interested spectators chose favorable positions near the finish and waited. At a quarter of one, three tugs were moored at the drawbridge and rapidly filled. One bore a huge green and white banner, and an enthusiastic body of sophomores clustered on its pilot box; the second was jammed with noisy and excited freshmen, and covered with red and white bunting, and the referee's tug contained a mixture of the sedate of all classes...