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...exhibition game with Princeton yesterday, played on Jarvis field, resulted in a victory for Harvard by a score of 9 to 5. Harvard won the game in the first inning, securing six runs. Our nine scored three more runs in the fifth and was quickly retired without scoring in the other seven innings. The game after the first inning was well played throughout, and was characterized by good fielding on both sides. Wadleigh and Coolidge made two beautiful one-handed fly catches. The best fielding for Harvard was done by Coolidge, Burt and Crocker, and for Princeton by Schenck...
...Princetons defeated Harvard Saturday on Jarvis field by a score of 9 to 3. The home nine were out-batted and out-fielded. Burt, Coolidge and Olmsted did good work for Harvard, and the two Harlans for the Princeton nine. Ernst and Schenck were very effective. One of the features of the game was the double play of Olmsted and Burt. Burt led the batting for Harvard, and Wadleigh, Moffatt and Ernst for Princeton. The following is the score...
...perfect nine is bound to have its "off-days." After a defeat, a nine should be encouraged to do better in the future. It is bad enough for a nine to be beaten, without receiving the abuse of the whole college, after months of hard work on the ball field...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: The want of a suitable field for practice has long been felt by the lacrosse men. The question is: Cannot that need be supplied without injury to any other branch of athletics? Hitherto the lacrosse men have failed to secure any other place than a portion of the field to the southwest of the old society building. All this spring they have been using this ground, although they were compelled to have one goal on the top of a hill, and to be continually on the guard against breaking the windows of the society building...
...Yale-Princeton game in New York on Decoration Day. The N. Y. Herald in commenting on the game, says: "The contest as a whole was but little in advance of the amateur playing of twenty years ago, and in striking contrast to the splendid exhibition on the same field the day before...