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Grated coverings have been put over the pit-falls in front of Hollis and Stoughton...
...revival of the old custom of having a series of five games with Yale. '83 is the only class in college that can remember such a series. The last series was played under particularly unfavorable circumstances, at a time when we had an especially weak nine to pit against the strongest nine that Yale ever put into the field. Every senior will recollect with pride the plucky fight we then made for supremacy against overwhelming odds. The 2 to 1 game, the 3 to 0 game, and the 3 to 1 game, coming as they did after the disastrous...
...ball to right field will strike the hill and then roll down into the first baseman's hands. Every one who saw our last game with Brown last year, recollects how indignant he felt when a hit ordinarily worth about two bases rolled under the fence into a pit on the other side and allowed the striker to gain home. The News aptly remarks, "it may be well enough to use such small grounds for practice, but when a championship game must be played in so small a place that three long hits into the field knock shingles...
...Seniors' winged feet beat a quick pit...
...concerned in the affair are liable to prosecution for cruelty to animals, but they will probably escape the punishment they so richly deserve. They cannot, however, avoid the judgment of public opinion, which must refuse the title of gentlemen to persons who participate in the amusements of a cock-pit...