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...cannot too strongly advise all those who enjoy cricket and those who have never seen a game before, to be present at the match on Holmes Field to-day. Although the contest will probably be too one-sided to be breathlessly exciting, the pleasure of seeing some of the best cricketers in this country should be enough to bring out a large crowd. The Pennsylvania cricket team has two members of the celebrated American cricket team which went to England three summers ago, as well as several other well-known players. The Harvard eleven should receive some support from...
...struggle on whose results depend in part its chances for the championship pennant this year. The nine has done some splendid work since it last encountered the Yale team and has inspired the college at large with confidence of its ability to beat Yale in the contest to-day. Both the fielding and the batting of the nine has improved greatly with its constant practice, and the steady work of the battery in all the games leaves nothing to be asked from that quarter except that it maintain its excellent standard. When we add to these indications in Harvard...
...vote of the faculty, hereafter the programme of athletic contests shall be submitted to the faculty at the opening of each season, spring and fall, by the officers of the respective organizations; and no athletic contest shall be allowed until the programme has been approved, under such conditions as the faculty may prescribe...
...teams in the league will be so great that it will be impossible for each eleven to play every other one, consequently the matches will be arranged as games in a tennis tournament. Each school will draw for its opponent, and the defeated one shall drop from the contest. An attempt will be made to arrange a match between the winner of the Exeter-Andover game...
...most interesting books on athletics that has appeared for some time is the "History of Yale Athletics from 1840-1888," by Richard M. Hurd, Yale '88. The book gives a complete account of every contest in rowing, foot-ball, base-ball, track athletics and tennis which Yale has had with other colleges, and is a decided credit to the author. As a general thing, books on athletics contain a confusing tangle of dates, names, anecdotes and statistics; but Mr. Hurd has separated everything in such a systematic manner as make the book particularly attractive to the reader. The accounts...