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...Sixteen teams and 25 individual players, making a total of 250 players, have registered for the series. Teams will be divided into sections which will be announced tomorrow. Each team will play every other in its section, the winners of each section to enter the final round. The team winning the series will receive individual cups, and its members will have their names engraved on the Hale Chair and designate where it shall be placed. After the game are finished an All-Leiter nine will be picked to play the Second nine on May 22. From the result of this...
...beginning of the factory age, when the long hours, resulting from the new use of artificial light, the little regard for human life, and the introduction of the labor of women and children called forth protests from all thinking men. The reduction of the working day from fourteen or sixteen hours to twelve was met with the same arguments of the impending ruin of industry and the invasion of the rights of workingmen as are now leveled against the eight-hour day. But it would be difficult for any man to convince laborers that their liberties have been lessened...
...number of men to be retained at the preliminary trials will depend entirely upon the quality of the speaking. Usually from ten to sixteen men are retained for the final contest which will be held this year on Thursday, May II. Five prizes will be awarded, two first of $CO each, and three second of $45 each...
...individual prize to the man who makes the highest total score in all the shoots, and a special prize to the man who makes the lowest total score. The teams will be composed of five men, each of whom will shoot at fifty birds at a distance of sixteen yards, under Interstate Association rules...
...progress of the University baseball squad during the past week has been on the whole unsatisfactory, the practice yesterday afternoon showing little or no improvement over the work of a week ago. The fielding squad was cut yesterday to sixteen men and four battery candidates were dropped. Another cut will be made in the battery squad next week...