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...following from the Yale News gives us the Yale view of the result of the Mott Haven games of this year...
...Mott Haven games in New York last spring, the H. A. A. was not represented in the hurdle race, but, from the present outlook, such will not be the case this year. It was felt last year that much depended on the short flat races. Yale and Columbia had fast and experienced hurdlers, while Harvard had none at regular work. Hurdling is a race which requires quite as much "knack" as physical qualities. With such a handicap it was thought unwise to sacrifice any of our sprinters to a probable failure. This year, however, a new hurdle race has been...
...Harvard is going to get back the Mott Haven cup in May, the men on whom she relies to win it for her have got to stop going backward and begin going forward. If the men who contested these events cannot do better, others must come foward who can. We want to win back the cup, and we can never do it by half-hearted work. Every one who can must work hard and earnestly or we shall again be obliged to see the cup carried off by some college that has not half our advantages, but has, what...
...itself well-nigh invincible. The record made by this "big four" is indeed an enviable one. In the four years which the class has spent here, the regular tug-of-war team has never been beaten. We also congratulate the college at large, for with such a team at Mott Haven our chances for one event are pretty well assured. The class tug-of-war teams that have pulled against '88 must acknowledge that they have had worthy adversaries, and that fact ought to lessen the bitterness of defeat. With our congratulations go our best wishes for success at Mott...
...Sargent will be in his office this morning from 9 to 10. The committee to weigh contestants and to examine their clothes from 8 to 9.30. Seats will be reserved until 1.50 for the members of last year's Mott Haven Team, Varsity Crew, Eleven, and Nine...