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HANOVER, N. H., May 13. - Dartmouth defeated Brown in the decisive game of the series today, by the score of 7 to 5. In the two games played in Providence the scores were 3 to 2 in favor of Dartmouth and 5 to 3 for Brown. The contest today was very sharp and clean and full of interest from beginning to end, Brown being retired in the ninth with two men on bases. Folsom's brilliant stop of a hot grounder and Captain Abbott's batting were noteworthy features...
...freshmen won additional glory this afternoon by their defeat of the sophomores in the inter-class contest for the baseball championship. Both classes vied in their endeavors to outdo the noisy demonstrations made by '95 and '96 in their game last week. Brass bands, drum corps complete even to the drum-majors, and cannon fire-crackers, sirens, horns, whistles and even shot guns were brought into requisition to create noise and express class feeling. The sophomores had the better organization, but were unable to "fuss" the freshmen who beat them by a big score. Next week will decide the class...
...oratorical contest between the Harvard and Yale prohibition clubs took place Saturday evening in Unity Hall, Hartford, Conn. Mr. Allen B. Lincoln, Yale '81, presided, and appropriate music was rendered by Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Beveridge of Nebraska. The judges gave their decision in favor of the Yale club. While the judges were conferring Mr. E. C. Snyder, secretary and organizer of the National Intercollegiate Prohibition Association, explained to the audience something of the workings and significance of the intercollegiate prohibition movement, which has now spread to include thirteen or fourteen different state associations and over a hundred colleges...
...HAVEN, CONN., May 10. - The first debate between the freshman debating societies of Harvard and Yale was held at Alumni Hall tonight, and resulted in a victory for Yale, after a very close contest. The audience numbered about five hundred persons and nearly filled the hall...
...holder of the intercollegiate cup, Princeton has the right to name the place and time of the Gun Club contest with Yale and accordingly has challenged Yale to shoot at Princeton on either May 23, June 7, or the morning of June 8. Yale has accepted the challenge and named June 8 as the date, the day of the second Yale-Princeton baseball game...