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...Harvard nine received its first defeat of the season yesterday afternoon at the hands of the Marlboros. The game was called at the end of the sixth innings to enable the Marlboros to catch a train. Austin and Choate were the battery for Harvard, and Henshaw and Bingham did not play. Both teams batted well, but fielded rather loosely...
...their grounds, and the third and deciding match, which is to take place at Jamaica next Thursday, will be looked forward to with interest by all lovers of the shot-gun. In the match Saturday, Harvard took the lead in the first round, and maintained it to the end. The shooting by Palmer and Clyde was remarkably good. The conditions of the match were: Team of 6 men each, each man to shoot at 25 pigeons and 5 bats, at 5 angles, 18 yards rise. The score by rounds was as follows...
...referee, Mr. Sumner '87, placed the ball at five o'clock. It went quickly to the Harvard end of the field but was soon returned. The first fifteen minutes of play consisted of a succession of long throws and considerable fumbling by the attacks of both teams. Not until within five minutes of the end of the first half did Harvard secure a goal. Blodgett made the successful shot. The second half closed with the score 1 to 0 in Harvard's favor...
...second half Harvard's attack did better team work at the start and Hale threw a goal at the end of seven minutes. Five minutes later some rather loose defence work which left goal impoverished allowed an independent to shuffle the ball through, making the score 2 to 1 which was not changed at the end of the game...
...foot races at the Olympic games were of three lengths - namely, once over the course or "stadion," as it was called, and which became the unit of the Greek road measure, being 600 Greek feet, equal to 606 feet 9 inches English: twice over it - that is, from one end to the other and back again; and the third 12, 20, or 24 times over, for the various reports are not clear as to which it was. Taking the longest distance, this would only be 14.562 English feet, or just over two and three-quarter miles; and yet when...