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...earnestly wish the nine success in the contest. We hope that they will go into the game neither with the lack of confidence that makes play unsteady, nor with the excess of confidence that makes it careless...
...Princeton should win, this contest will end the series for this year, otherwise the dicisive game will be played at New Haven next Saturday...
...each of the field events the number of contestants has been reduced to five in the morning. The winners will be found in the summary below. Hickok's put of 42 feet with the 16 1b. hammer, broke his own previous intercollegiate record of 41ft. 1-8in. In the hammer contest, Patterson of Cornell made the greatest throw, over 125 feet, but this was not allowed as he slipped and had to put his hand outside of the ring...
...interest in the Mott Haven games next Saturday is greater than for some years, and the prospects are that the contest will be extremely close and interesting. As has often been the case three colleges are claiming consideration as possible winners of the cup, but this year it is Pennsylvania and not Princeton that will make the fight with Harvard and Yale. Experience has shown that predictions concerning the outcome of the individual events cannot be made with any degree of assurance. However, brief mention of the men whose public performances have been worthy of especial notice...
...principal interest of the evening centered in the game of battle-ball. Ten minutes were allowed for the game and after a very close contest the juniors won by a score...