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...fact the graduate manager has offered to build a larger number of courts than the tennis association wants and not injure the field at all. It is true that the tennis association wants this all done before the interscholastic tournament, on May twelfth, and the courts can be built quicker as proposed. But while interscholastic athletics deserve encouragement, are they to be encouraged at the expense of our own students? If it should be urged that it would cost less to build them all together there is little doubt that the extra expense need not fall on the tennis association...
...game for Harvard. The infield put more life into their play, Whittemore and Winslow putting up the best game. In the sixth inning Wiggin went into the box and the nine immediately settled down to more steady work. Wiggin was well supported by O'Malley, who is quicker both on his feet and in throwing to bases than Scannell...
...advantage of what little wind remained to play a punting game. It is also a question if Harvard's policy of playing her halfbacks fully five yards behind the line is as effective as Yale's, whose runners invariably are placed close to the rushers and are thus much quicker in striking the line, apparently too, with even more force...
Harvard's gains aggregated more than Yale's, the line was quicker in breaking through, and the tackling was new and hard...
...Watriss has been very careful of the men, perhaps too much so. For the most part, the afternoons are now spent in rowing short distances, Watriss either directing them from a pair oar, or from the bank. They also row down the basin, always with a slow stroke, never quicker than thirty to the minute. The strokes are long and slow, excellent for a four mile race, but scarcely with enough life and snap for a shorter one. The men are apt to hang on the full reach and don't succede in keeping the boat on even keel. However...