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...prize of a $500 cup has been offered by the New York Racquet Court Club as a prize for an amateur contest in billiards...
...Saturday, May 28, the contest for the Intercollegiate Challenge Cup, better known as the Mott Haven Cup, comes off in New York, It is known to every one that Harvard has won it for seven successive years. It must be also known that Yale has a better chance of winning this year than Harvard has. Now a large number of men ought easily to be found to spend the three days, May 27-30, at home in New York and at the same time see the games we all so interested in. The reserved seats are now on sale...
This afternoon the 'Varsity nine starts for Princeton, where the second game will be played to-morrow. The contest will be a very close one and may not result as favorably as the first and the nine needs all the encouragement it is possible to give. It is disheartening for a team to play on a foreign field without a reasonable number of backers, and it is impossible to play an up-hill game under these circumstances. The nine labors under great disadvantages in playing this game because both Henshaw and Campbell are in poor condition. Henshaw will probably catch...
What appears more disgraceful than the defeat is the "muckerish" way in which certain undergraduates attempted to win the game by yelling. Yesterday we had occasion to call attention to the evil which was creeping into the class games. Now, in an intercollegiate contest, Harvard has been reduced to the level which has always been the object of scorn and contempt heretofore, and deserves to remain so. It is much to be regretted that, besides those who supported the nine, there were men on the team itself, whose conduct eminently ill-fitted the occasion. The fresh man nine...
...cause of good feeling between colleges, and when Harvard is in the wrong we will say so honestly and fearlessly, but when cheering descends into yelling, no matter by whom it is done, we shall consider it our duty to proclaim such conduct "muckerish" and unworthy an intercollegiate athletic contest...