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...yesterday proved to be the most interesting one of the series and was most sharply contested. The result gives to '84 the championship of the college in base-ball. Good fielding was done by Beaman and Le Moyne, each playing a remarkably fine game. The batting, which was rather weak, was lead by Watson. The following is the score...
...better day than Saturday could have been chosen for the lacrosse tournament for the Oelrich cup, at the New York Polo Grounds, the weather being perfect. The audience was rather slim, but interested; the fair sex following the fortumes of New York University as a rule, while the knowing ones were there to see "our city club scoop her in again." Six teams entered - New York, Bloom-field, Princeton, N. Y. University, Yale and Harvard, the rules being to play for an hour, unless one side made three goals before that time. Yale and Harvard were first drawn, and faced...
...better, and Harvard only succeeded in getting one goal, which was kicked from the field by Mason. The play of our team has been materially improved since their last match, and the spectators were much pleased by the game. The catching and kicking of the half-backs is still rather weak, however, and some of the men still seem disinclined to fall on the ball. The best playing for Harvard was done by Mason, Kendall and Ayres; for the Techs, by Haines, who made several very fine rushes in the last part of the game...
...clock this morning the score in the Madison Square Garden walk stood : Hughes, 151 miles; Hazael, 137; Hart, 142; Rowell, 136. The latter's performance has been rather disappointing thus far to himself and friends...
...falling on the ball, and thus often make bad fumbles which is, as experience has proved, a fatal mistake. The players especially noticeable are the half backs for their running and dodging, and the quarter back for his quickness. The rusher line is lively but on the whole rather weak though composed of heavy men. These are the impressions created upon a foot ball man by a careful observation of a practice game...