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Casper Whitney says: "If the Harvard crew can learn to keep their oars squarely against their pins and can master the art of a slow recovery, Yale will find a crew worthy of their best efforts, and one which they will have hard work to defeat...
...deeply thankful for the loyal efforts of Captain Vail and Coach Perkins and the rest of the crew. Each one of them may feel that the members of the University have confidence in those who represent it. We sincerely hope for victory, but should that fail us an honorable defeat is certain. And as a testimony of our hopes for their success and appreciation for their past efforts, we must give them a send off today such as has never before been given. A reminder is, we believe, the only exhortation needed. Each man's spirit will prompt...
...game with the Yale Law School Saturday was very close, and came dangerously near being a defeat. The nine, blanked for six innings, went to work with a will in the last three and pulled out the game. It was well done and they deserve much praise for their pluck and determination...
...four o'clock this afternoon Harvard will play the second game of the season with Georgetown. In the first game which, it will be remembered, was played on the Easter trip, Harvard was beaten by a score of 3 to 2, the only defeat which Harvard received on her trip from a college team...
...freshman game with Princeton on Saturday was about as poor an exhibition of baseball as the Ninety six nine could have given. Defeat in itself is not to be regretted so much as the ease with which it was inflicted. For seven innings, although lamentably weak at the bat at critical moments, Ninety-six played a creditable game. Then in the last two innings the whole nine went to pieces in a way which was entirely unwarranted. It was slovenly playing and it is for this alone that they deserve severe criticism. Princeton thoroughly outplayed them at every point...