Word: cleanness
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...hammer-throw. Last year he was bothered by the turn in the throwing circle and his best throws were fouled by stepping outside the limits. He has been coached by John Flanagan, the world's champion in this event, and has now nearly overcome this difficulty, getting a clean throw of from 140 to 150 feet. F. G. Brown, Jr., '01 and H. P. Olcott '01 of the eleven and G. A. Goss '03 are also working on the hammer. Brown, although new to the work, is developing fast and may make second place by the last...
...champion for the fifth time yesterday by defeating W. H. Laverack '01 in straight sets, 6-3, 6-4, 7-5. The match was more closely contested than the score shows, for nearly every game was hard fought. Marvin was much steadier than Laverack and although he had fewer clean passes to his credit, he made on the other hand fewer outs and nets. Marvin's service was not a hard as Laverack's but was more accurate and he served only one double fault in the three sets to Laverack's four...
...well in fewer words. Though the plot of "A Spool of Thread" by Forbes Watson, seems a bit trivial, the story is well told, with good detail and imagination. The best part of "The Sea," by A. P. Wadsworth, is the straightforward style in which it is told. A clean setting is made in the fewest possible words and the story is free from interruptions...
Griffin pitched well for Holy Cross and held the Harvard batters down well, except in the sixth and seventh innings, when five of Harvard's seven hits were made. Wendell made three clean singles, one of which brought in the only run scored, and caught three flies, two of them on hard chances. For Holy Cross, Linnehan played well at second, accepting nine chances without an error...
...work of the crew seemed especially smooth and clean, showing a hard drive and quick recover. To all appearances the eight should be rowing in excellent form with the two more weeks of coaching left them...