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...final tug-of-war between the teams from Columbia College and the College of the City of New York, which should have taken place at the inter-collegiate games on Saturday last, but was postponed, was contested Tuesday morning at the grounds of the Manhattan Athletic Club. The Columbia team consisted of Oscar Bodelson, 129 1/4 pounds; John Banks, 152 3/4 pounds; F. L. Henry, 169 1/2 pounds, and W. F. Morgan, 143 1/2 pounds; total weight, 594 1/4 pounds; limit, 600 pounds. The College of the City of New York men were F. Pfeiffer, 138 pounds; R. Cronson...
...Bartlett: "It is matter of common knowledge," says the Post, "that the feeling over this question has become very deep, and that it has quite destroyed the old kindly, social life at Hanover, though it is not allowed to reach the students, and ostensibly everything is quiet. The only place where the contest can be fought out is in the board of trustees. We infer the majority think President Bartlett will live the opposition down and weary the alumni into indifference and subsequent forgetfulness, but we think they under-estimate the strength of their opposition. No college, and especially such...
...know, solicited subscriptions, and have never received any help except a comparatively small sum towards defraying their expenses on the present trip. It is rather surprising to most persons to be visited by cricket men for money, but it would not be so much out of place if the lacrosse men were to try the same plan. We feel sure that quite a number of persons would gladly help them financially, but at any rate they may expect in the future a better reception and much less ridicule...
...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 out of the roof of a barn, and only count for one, or at the most, two bases, it is exasperating." Brown owes it to herself, as well as to other colleges, to procure more suitable grounds...
...annual inter-collegiate contests will take place on the Polo Grounds this afternoon, beginning at 2.30 o'clock. Entries have been received from Amherst, Bowdoin, Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Hamilton, Harvard, Lafayette, Lehigh, New York College, Princeton, Rutgers, Stevens Institute, Trinity, Union, University of Pennsylvania, Wesleyan, Williams and Yale...