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...would be difficult, however, to fancy a meeting more interesting and exciting as an athletic contest than the one of yesterday. The score was on a perpetual see-saw until the last event was finished at 7 o'clock, and when it is remembered that a difference of one first place would have tied the score, the extreme closeness of the games can be comprehended. To be sure, Yale at the end of the fourth event had 23 points while Harvard had 9 only. Yet the mile run and the mile walk evened the score and from then till...
...hammer throwing? Or that Wade of Yale would be better by a place than R. H. Davis of Harvard? Yet such was the actual condition of things, and perhaps this very departure from the conception of how things ought to have been was what made the athletic contest of yesterday so exciting...
...seniors won the first of the final series of games for the class championship on Jarvis Field yesterday afternoon, by a score of five to three, in what was the best played class contest of the season. By the score '95 appears to have put up slightly the better game, both at the bat and in the field, but both their hits and errors came at the wrong time, while '92 bunched their hits, and played their best ball at critical points...
...notice of the Harvard Democratic Club in yesterday morning's CRIMSON, mention was made of the "approaching national convention." It should have read "approaching national contest...
Yale's record in shot-putting in the 'varsity meeting was greater than ours and Lyman is looked upon as a sure winner, with Evins second and Coxe third, but in the hammer contest Evins will, to all appearances, make the longest throw with Stillman and Coxe second and third...