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...Mystery is rather heavily sparred for a vessel of her size. She was carrying considerable ballast. The sea was running high and the wind was freshening; she began to ship water and fill her cockpit, and before one sea could be bailed out she shipped another. The boys realizing their danger probably attempted to reach shore. At this point she shipped more water than she could carry and she settled to the bottom of the ocean, stern foremost, carrying her small boat down with her. This was S.40 a. m. Sunday, August 12th. Hasty preparation had been made for such...
...careless and has made errors on comparatively easy balls, some of his plays have been brilliant and his pickups are wonderful. At the bat he has made no hits since the first Yale game, when he put two hot ones to his credit. His base-running as yet is rather listless and he is too much inclined to watch where the ball goes when it leaves his bat. All these faults, however, can be remedied with careful practice by another season...
...been any excess in physical exercise, but there has been in the exciting games that are played. I calculate that some eight or ten students in every class of one hundred lose very much of the benefit of their college life because their hearts are in the sports rather than in the studies. I am sorry to be obliged to say that the enthusiasm of the students is expended on these muscular feats rather than on intellectual exercises. The hero-of his class is one who stands high, not in literature or science or philosophy, but in more physical agility...
...London yesterday the Cambridge crew administered a severe defeat to Columbia, winning the race by over twelve lengths in 24 min. 45 sec. Columbia was confident of victory, backing her crew with heavy odds. The fact that Belshaw was slightly ill on the day before the race rather encouraged Columbia, who, however, were very much sobered by the excellent time made by Harvard in a practice pull on Tuesday. The wind early in the morning was light, but just before the start it freshened up, so that the sea was very choppy, which, of course, greatly lowered the time...
...minute. Harvard kept increasing the lead and, at the end of the first mile, had gained over a length on the Columbia crew. The mile was made in just six minutes. Up to this time both crews rowed in very fine form. Harvard, however, was evidently taking the matter rather easily up to this point. The crimson kept on increasing her lead, reaching the mile-and-a-half buoy in ten minutes and the two-mile in thirteen minutes five seconds, where Columbia was three lengths and twenty seconds behind. Harvard had by this time dropped to thirty-three strokes...