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...freshman athletic meeting, postponed on account of the rain, will come off today at 4 P. M. The handicap meeting will take place on Saturday...
...which will shortly appear for the forty-second time, having been started in 1842. By the Harvard man, who is accustomed to the plain simplicity of the Index, the artistic part of the Banner is not likely to be appreciated. Almost all of the various eating clubs have a place in its pages, and claims a cut, while many of the societies and athletic organizations head their lists with symbolic head pieces. To be sure many of these are in very good taste, butstill there is much that is rude and inartistic that finds its way among its pages...
...Tuesday afternoon the Tennis Tournament revived slightly. In the singles, Presbrey defeated Sawin and then Pierson, thus winning the right to play the final set against Wheel-wright or Curtis today. In the doubles Hoyt and Taylor defeated Presbrey and Sawin, and by drawing a bye win a place in the finals. Their opponents are one of the following pairs...
From the Yale News we learn that the Oelrichs tournament takes place next Saturday, and will be played upon terms similar to those of last year's tournament. The first drawing is as follows : Yale vs. University of New York at 11 A. M. ; Harvards vs. Druids of Baltimore at 12 ; Princton vs. New Yorks at 1 ; the finals to be played out in the afternoon. Moreover a gold medal will be given the goal-keeper of the winning team, and another as a prize for long throwing...
...next place, handicaps are better than limit races, for no matter how poor a runner a man may be yet he always has a chance in a handicap, while in a limit race he might really be too poor to have any chance at all. Finally handicaps are a great means of bringing out new men and improving old. New men are often encouraged by beating a scratch man, go in again and keep at it until they themselves become scratch men, while the old men have to do their best to win, and hence are often wonderfully improved...