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Yesterday afternoon Eighty-eight and Eighty nine played the third game in the class championship series on Jarvis. Although the score was very close, the game was very uninteresting owing to the tedious length to which it was drawn out. The game was called at the end of the eighth innings on account of darkness. Eighty-nine played very loosely at first, and in the second innings Eighty-eight made seven runs on four hits. After that Eighty-nine played much steadier and by their timely hitting won the game. Downer and Thayer each made a home run, and Palmer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Base-Ball. | 5/10/1887 | See Source »

LONDON, May 5. - I was plied with all manner of questions as to what sort of a river the Thames was, the length of the course, the condition of the water, how far from New York or Boston, how many people attended the Yale and Harvard races and who paid the club's expenses when they raced there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Cambridge Crew. | 5/7/1887 | See Source »

...length of time which elapsed before the receipt of this telegram led us to believe that the game with Yale was not arranged until some time after they had our letter, signifying our willingness to play them on the date they had chosen. The fact also that Winston, Yale's trainer, was training the Williams team was significant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication. | 4/20/1887 | See Source »

...makes between colleges. At the same time it is hoped that the club will have its effects at home in improving the teams and drawing out the best men at hand to belong to them. It will offer an opportunity for captains to talk to their men at any length without fear of interruption, and at the same time will create a general feeling of equality and social friendship beneath the different athletic organizations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Social Athletic Club. | 3/26/1887 | See Source »

...competent and well educated physical trainers thoughout the whole country. This summer course affords a most thorough discipline and preparation for the peculiar work in which its members are to engage. An age of sane ideas about bodily exercise, outside sports and proper care for health seems at length dawning near. And we cannot repress a feeling of pride that at Harvard are found the seeds of this reform...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/18/1887 | See Source »

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