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...BaseBall Association, which includes Rutgers, Lafayette, and Stevens, have arranged their schedule of games. It is hoped that New York University, Seton, St. John's, Manhattan, and the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn will join before the season opens...
...mile skating race for the championship of America, at Brooklyn, last Friday evening, was easily won by the Norwegian, Alex Paulsen, in 39 minutes 7 1-2 seconds-the best time on record...
Professor Farrow, at West Point, Professor Andrews of the Gymnasium of the Young Men's Christian Association at Brooklyn, Dr. Sargent, of Hemenway Gymnasium at Harvard University, and Archabald Maclaren, of the Gymnasium at Oxford University in England, all find no difficulty in adding in one year from an inch to an inch and a half to the fore and upper arms, and three inches to the girth of chest, of pupils under their charge...
...University Club held an important meeting this week, the result of which will be to make the club an assured success, and one of the college institutions. The building rented by the club on Chapel street is owned by Mr. Bowen, of Brooklyn, N. Y., who graduated here in the class of '81. The idea of forming a club was first agitated in 1881, and it was first merely a place where meals could be obtained, and one or two of the New York papers quietly read in the club's reading-room. In 1882, owing to the influence...
...much understood, everybody seemed to know that a peculiar kind of ball could be delivered, and that Mathews, the present "curver" for the Athletics, was the man who was doing it. Arthur Cummings, who played in the Mutuals of Brocklyn in 1872, and in the Stars of Brooklyn in the years proceeding, also was known to pitch a deceptive ball, but as he quit playing professionally about 1874 his work was gradually forgotten and Matthews given all the credit for the innovation. The reason for the curve is something that professional players have never troubled themselves about, and though Matthews...