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...base-ball has boomed greatly, owing chiefly to the arrangement of a series of inter-class games for the championship of the college, and a silver medal for each man on the winning team. The class nines are unusually strong this year, and the prospect is that the contest will be close and interesting. The nines are very evenly matched, and it is impossible to form any definite idea as to the result, though the general opinion is that the first place lies between the junior and freshman nines. The first game of the series between the juniors and sophomores...
...Brunonian says editorially: "The association games thus far played have demonstrated the fact that the contest for the college championship this season will be an exceedingly close one, and will be doubtful, probably, even to the end of the season. This fact, however, has become evident, that Brown has a team in the field of which we may well be proud. Probably not more than once in the previous history of base-ball matters here has a stronger nine taken the field, and this is all the more gratifying considering the disadvantages under which the nine labored earlier...
...final contest of the Longwood tennis tournament was won by Winslow (of Harvard) over Smith (of Providence.) First prize consequently goes to Winslow...
...hope today to show to the Yale News how strong the interest in athletics is at Harvard, and what we can do in the way of records. Although there were numerous cases of walk-overs in the class sports on Monday and Tuesday, every contest today will be hotly disputed, and the results cannot but augur well for our future success. For upon the issues today will be based our prospects at New York, since our delegates to the inter-collegiate games compete in the university sports...
...place on the same date that the above petition was written. The article referred to says : "On last Saturday the weather was so inauspicious that it was found necessary to postpone the races until this morning." We do not wish to make any prophecies concerning the result of the contest, because things have come to such a pass that if we dared to express our humble opinion our office would be instantly crowded by a throng wildly waving their pocket-books (empty, probably,) and crying out "What'll you bet?" In our list of the crews, it will be noticed...