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...Phillips will attempt to break the record of 9 feet 2 inches in running high kick at the Union games...
...professional ten mile walking record, 1 hour 17 minutes 532., was broken by Dennis A. Driscoll, at Lynn, last Wednesday, the distance being covered in 1 hour 16 minutes...
...played with professional clubs for several years, and a representative of Princeton, a gentleman with the euphonious name of Funkhouser, was for some time with the St. Louis team. These are only a few instances in which college athletes have turned their skill to profit; probably if a complete record had been kept twenty-five or thirty cases of this sort could be cited. That is a remarkably large number, when we consider that professional base-ball playing has practically been in existence only about fifteen years and that there are only ten or fifteen colleges that have good nines...
...that the class of '87 has equaled, at least, the record of its predecessor in foot-ball, there only remains for it to surpass that of '86 on the diamond. Never have the base-ball prospects of a freshman class been brighter than those of the present freshman class. Excelling its opponent in numbers, athletic facilities, and support, it certainly equals Yale '87 in material and enthusiasm. Among the numerous candidates for a position in the nine, many are already well-known as players of no mean skill; some are prominent from their past records. But the class has opposed...
...allow no one to approach them white on the water. They never pull against another crew till they meet us for the final tug on the Thames. The only method which they have of ascertaining what speed their crew can get on is that of time rows, and the record of these is below par. Bent on an opposite policy, our crew has always been glad to meet other shells on the river. Many brushes take place with the class crews, and sometimes with the Union and other crews from Boston rowing on the "basin," all of which serve...