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...Castaldi. It was followed by the middle-weight boxing, for which there were only two entries: Mr. F. G. Curtis, Harvard, '90, and Mr. Clarke from the B. Y. C. A. The first round opened with cautious sparring. Curtis landed his left on Clarke's face. Clarke led, but fell short; Curtis landed again, and the round closed slightly in his favor. In the second round Clarke succeeded in getting in his left, evening things up a little. The round closed with a clean hit for Curtis. The third round was decidedly hotter than the preceding ones. Curtis continued...
...boat is to be furnished with the most improved appliances, and when finished will cost about $400. It is a noticeable fact in the history of Yale-Harvard races in eight-oared shells that since their inception every race has been won in a paper boat, whether the victory fell to Harvard or Yale, although cedar boats have been thoroughly tried.- Yale News...
...freshman class in that year was 69; that of the freshman crew and nine, 61; of the lacrosse team, 67. The class of '86 had an average of 76. The average of the seniors in the university nine, and in the lacrosse and Mott Haven teams was 74. None fell below 60 and five had Commencement parts. There was no university football team in 1885-86, and no seniors in the crew...
...rain that fell during the afternoon had no perceptible effect upon the size of the audience at the concert in the evening. The Odeon was crowded to its utmost capacity by people who found little fault with the programme. Swarts, '88 and Longworth, '91, both of Cincinnati, were given solo parts ; the former sang his old favorite "The Capture of Bacchus" and the latter rendered on his violin the difficult adagio from Viotti's Twenty-second concerto. The great hit of the evening here as in St. Louis and New York was the college song, "Imogene Donahue" with solo...
...Willard, Yale '92, met with a serious accident at Bridgeport, Ct., on Saturday. In jumping from a freight train, he fell and had his right leg cut off at the knee, and his left leg and arm crushed...