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...quarter mile was a fine race. The trial heats had been run off in the morning, so that only the best men started. From the crack of the pistol Sanford of Yale and Marshall of Harvard took the lead side by side and raced fiercely the whole distance. Merrill followed three or four behind till the pace began to tell on the leaders and then on the finish he spurted out between them as is his custom, winning in 50 2-5s. Sanford and Marshall fought it out for second and the Yale man just...
...defeating the strong Georgetown College nine at Washington, yesterday, Princeton proved that she is to have a crack baseball nine this year. The score...
...ease with which Harvard defeated the University of Pennsylvania was as gratifying as surprising. Not only did Harvard tie the series between the two universities, but Bayne, the visitor's crack pitcher, was batted out of the box in two innings, and Jack Highlands was withdrawn at the end of the fourth to save him for the hard games later in the week...
Among the baseball men in the Law School are Bowers the 'varsity pitcher: Graves the football player and a member of the Trinity nines of the past three years; O' Neil, the crack first baseman of the Holy Cross team; Farrell, second baseman on the Exeter nine for the past two years; Norton, last year's short stop on the Yale team; D. W. Parsons, an old third baseman on the Colby University team and for two years a member of the New England League; Foster, another old Colby player; Redding, of last year's Syracuse University nine, and others...
...Soldiers Field has been prepared for secret practice of the eleven. A fence eight feet high on three sides, and twelve on the Cambridge side, has been built about a levelled space, large enough to allow a strip of ground fifteen feet wide outside of each boundery. Every crack and hole in the fence is to be filled, so that it will be impossible to see from without. The field will be marked out before Thursday when practice there will begin. Until late in the season however, the eleven will probably keep on using Jarvis a good part...