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...defeat of Harvard on Saturday has made the contest for the championship unusually exciting, yet we look forward to the result with hope and confidence. The loss of the game to Yale makes the work necessary to be done in the remaining games especially careful. For the loss of a game loses us the championship. The work of our change catcher is worthy of special mention, untrained in his pitcher's delivery, he filled the trying position in which he was placed much better than one would have reasonably expected, and the college should feel gratified that the loss...
...great immergency to secure the laurels which they deserve. The accident to Allen will inspire their opponents to strain every nerve for success. But the steadiness which has come of late to characterize the play of our nine, gives us every hope for a favorable issue in the contest to-day. The nine may rest assured that every Harvard man who has remained at Cambridge, whether he bends over a blue-book or prepares in desperation to do so, will still remember the game at Yale. Although unable to declare victory assured, we can prophecy an earnest effort...
...contest for the college championship has now narrowed down to Yale and Harvard. Princeton has played all her championships; Yale has played all except the two with Harvard. The two games with Amherst must be won by Harvard, in order to tie Yale in number of games lost and won. Following is the standing of the clubs...
...learn from the Yale Record that their athletes in the Mott Haven games were virtually first but nominally second in the contest through a deplorable failure of sight on the part of some of the disinterested judges...
...college was partially condoled by the news from Amherst that Yale had been beaten on the same day by the Amherst team. The score was 5 - 4, with 7 bases for 9 for each team. Errors, 1 - 4. At the end of the third week of the contest, this left Amherst and Princeton tied for first place, Harvard next, then Yale, Williams and Brown. Four games had been postponed...