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Word has been received from London by Richard K. Fox that Tug Wilson will start for America the latter part of this month to make the proposed match with John L. Sullivan, the champion pugilist, for the championship of the world. The stakes will be $2500 a side...
With the opening game in the college championship series tomorrow, the athletic season for Harvard fairly opens. After that events come crowding thick and fast until the end of the college year. On the same date our team plays a match in lacrosse with Columbia. The training of both the nine and the lacrosse team has been hard and faithful, and both certainly deserve a large share of success whether they win it or not. A week from tomorrow will be one of the most exciting days of the year for the entire body of undergraduates. On that date...
...match game in lacrosse between Harvard and Princeton is set for May 20th, (in Cambridge) the date of the spring meeting...
Tennis-players are indefatigable and persistent. Their industry and enthusiasm is generally to be admired. Nevertheless, we have heard the fastidious object to one extreme to which the eagerness of the players of this fascinating game often leads them. That, in the very midst of the most exciting match games with different colleges, played on Jarvis or Holmes, tennis courts should be in active operation in the near vicinity, utterly regardless of the patriotic contest going on so near, does seem remarkable, to say the least. The bobbing of a tennis ball is a delightful sight-in its proper time...
...billiard match between Oxford and Cambridge is soon to be played...