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...would be the winner Saturday. Dr. Appleton, the referee of sparring, could not be found for several minutes. He appeared, however, to call time for the first round. Both men went to work in a business-like manner and his hard, not wasting their strength on blows that fell short. Curtis got in several swings on Ashe's jaw; his countering was also good. Ashe showed a disposition to clinch, and just as time was called he got in a hard, straight left-hander. The second round was harder, and both men were less careful not to get hit, preferring...
...broken, the other officers of the club appointed, and the navy organized for its cruise. Originally the man who had received most reprimands and warnings from the faculty was made "Lord High," as they called the Lord High Admiral for short. In course of time, however, this important position fell to the jolliest man in the class. The poorest scholar, if indeed there were any choice of ignorance in such a club, was made "Vice-Admiral," the commission of "Rear-Admiral," was granted to the laziest man, and the hero of oaths and profanity was decked with the gown...
Great Jove! And can these things be? The yard a lake of raging water, whose billows roll over the unprotected sidewalks, and never a glimmer of light at night to act as light-house on the vasty deep! This particular editor of the CRIMSON fell in three feet of water, and wandered off the main channel of the sidewalk into deeper gulfs twice last evening in voyaging from Holworthy to Weld. There was water everywhere, and nothing to guide him in it. The president is away, we know, but we must appeal to the pity and humanity of the residuary...
...June the nine again fell foul of their friends, the "Somersets," and again won, 60-11, and four days afterwards met the "Athletics" of Philadelphia and United States Champions. The "Athletics" were naturally victorious, 22-10, but the Harvard team made an exceedingly creditable showing. The game was the "most scientific ever seen in New England, up to this time. As errors were not scored, we cannot tell the relative merits of the nines, but the "Athletics" probably excelled in both fielding and batting. Parker again distinguished himself in this game by his up-in the-air fly-catching...
Lyons, '85, of Yale has made the longest throw and also the longest hit in the Inter-collegiate record. The distance of the throw was 385 feet 2 inches that of the hit was 450 feet from the home plate to the spot at which the ball fell...