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...show to Yale and other colleges that if money is needed by Harvard organizations money will be forthcoming, even if it does take a little self-sacrifice and denial. Remember this, Harvard men, and do your share towards helping your crew to "show four miles of river to the crack New Haven crew" next June. And, as we have said before, do not wait to be called upon personally, but send or give your subscriptions in at once to the manager of the crew. He has so much on his hands that it is well-nigh impossible...
...Herald of last week Thursday, had a long article on Stagg, Yale's crack pitcher...
...save Yale from certain defeat. There are several weak spots in it now, but good coaching ought to remedy these within the next nine days. Most of the men in the rush line are really phenomenal players, but still they cannot play the whole game any more than a crack battery can win a championship for a poor base ball nine. Pratt and Wallace are to be the end rushers. The former was substitute in the '87 crew, and the latter has made a great reputation during the last two seasons by demonstrating that he could hold his own against...
Knowlton, Andover's crack catcher, who has done such good work at the bat this season, intends to enter the Harvard Law School next September...
Hyneman, one of the University of Pennsylvania crack pitchers, has never pitched a game in his life...