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DEAR SIR: Messrs. Sears and Cumnock speaking to the Andover Team last fall, offered any man who would come to Harvard and get on their team, their expenses paid through college. I, myself, was absent, but was told by members of our Team, one of whom is now playing on Harvard's team...
...Harvard team, and such offers have not to my knowledge been made by any member of the Harvard Football Association. Moreover. Mr. Sears and I did not go to Andover "in the fall," but in March, and did not see the team but only three members of it, one of whom announced that he was going to Yale, to be with a brother; another that he was going to Harvard. We were in Andover less than two hours, and were together the whole time. The whole charge is false and without foundation from beginning...
...such offers have ever been made to me by Captain Sears, Captain Cumnock, or any other person, either before entering college or since. Last summer, on the invitation of several Princeton men, I went to Cape May and played on a baseball team. There were seven Princeton men and one University of Pennsylvania man, besides myself. We all received our board and an allowance for incidental expenses, but were not paid for our services. I never have received money for engaging in athletics...
...About one-half the students in Rutgers college and the New Brunswick Theological Seminary were summoned as witnesses in the investigation of frauds at the late election...
...spent by the clubs in Pittsburg. They will leave that evening for Scranton, where they give a concert on Monday, January 6. At the close of the concert the club will attend the annual banquet of Yale alumni, as their guests. The concert in Scranton will be the last one of the trip and leaving there they will arrive in New York on the morning of January 8, when they will disband...