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...lack of life and energy. The feature of the game was the pitching of Garvin, who gave Wesleyan only one hit. After a week of very unsatisfactory attempts at practice, the team defeated Amherst last Saturday by the score of 12 to 0. In spite of the cold and damp weather the Yale team played an errorless and at times brilliant game, and made a more satisfactory showing than at any time this season. Sharpe was taken from first, and pitched for seven innings, allowing six well scattered hits. Another change was the playing of Eliason, the manager...
...heavy stone. Over this a layer of finer crushed stone will be placed, and the whole will receive the usual cinder covering. The practice fields will be rolled and graded somewhat, but not much work will be done until the necessity for it appears, since the only really damp portion of the field is, as we have seen, that area near the middle portion of the old gridiron which was usually too slippery for satisfactory work. The whole field will ultimately be surrounded with trees, and when the boulevard is constructed will become very attractive...
During the past two years, in seeking for the causes of football defeats, Harvard men have sometimes said that, as a result of the damp, so-called unhealthy condition of Soldiers Field, the teams have bee in poor physical shape for the important games. For the past year or more there has been a good deal written and said about the matter, although very few have had any definite knowledge of the health conditions of the field. As a natural result, many exaggerated and false stories have found their way into the newspapers and unfortunately the belief has gained ground...
...matter of the additional games with Harvard and Yale. The new baseball men have been ordered by Captain Bradley to report for practice in the cage, while the old men will remain working in the gymnasium till the latter part of March, when the cage will be less damp and the professional coach, Earle, will have charge...
...rule forbidding carriers to remain in the office beyond the time required for arranging the letters for their routes, forces those who have not time to go home, either out upon the street, or into the cellar, which is always damp and ill-ventilated and the floor of which is in rainy weather actually covered with water...