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...excluded from playing on the grounds of the Bostons except with the six clubs that form the league. Our nine cannot play with those clubs at all, but we may use their grounds, as we always have done, to meet other nines. Arrangements have already been made to open the season with the Live Oaks at Lynn on Fast Day, and other games of interest will soon follow. In our Brevity column will be found the dates of the first games with Yale and Princeton...
...earliest possible date. The Executive Committee not being composed of jockeys and blacklegs, it was never supposed that they could be so misinterpreted, or they would have guarded themselves more carefully against the Era. As the matter stands, we have challenged Cornell in a perfectly fair and open manner, and it is their own affair whether they accep or not; they can do either with perfect credit to themselves...
...Best (2 yards start), 23 3/5 sec.; 440 yards, J. Y. Dawbarn, 57 1/5 sec.; 880-yards handicap, J. Parkin, (scratch), 2 min. 14 2/5 sec.; high jump, J. D. Best, 4 ft. 11 1/2 in.; mile-race, J. Parkin, 5 min. 14 4/5 sec.; 120-yards open race, T. A. Wallis (9 yards start...
Great Amateur Regatta. The Watkins Regatta Association will, near the end of May, hold at Watkins Glen, N. Y., a grand regatta, open to all amateurs of America. In addition to the usual races, there will be three special trial-races for fours, pairs, and singles, over a straightaway course of one mile and five-sixteenths, the exact length of the regatta course at Henley, England. The winners of these three trials will, at the expense of the Regatta Committee, be sent to compete at Henley, and other regattas in England, and at the Paris International races...
...little less foot-ball and cricket news, than we find in most of the English school-papers. There is a very spirited prize poem on the Maid of Orleans; but whether it sounds more like the "Lays of Ancient Rome," or the "Lays of the Scottish Cavalier," is an open question...