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...would speak of the custom of applauding good batsmen when they step up to the bat. The majority of ball players, particularly amateurs, are apt to strike wildly and harder at a ball after applause, and are less sure of a safe hit. With a poor batsman it is somewhat disheartening to step up to the bat four or five times during a game amidst gloomy silence, when three or four men ahead of him have been loudly cheered. We hope that all will remember hereafter, and not be too hasty in expressing their likes and dislikes...
...hands of the contestants in our athletic meetings. Or, if the fault is not in the definiteness of the rules, then a thorough acquaintance with those already issued by the Association should be the condition of entry. Last Saturday both contestants and spectators acted in a way which somewhat marred the enjoyment of the meeting. Most of this unpleasantness might, we believe, have been avoided by a better knowledge, on the part of all present, of what was and what was not fair. Above all, such trouble as this should in the future be guarded against, especially on Ladies...
...undoubted fact, that the wrong kind of cinders was used in the original laying-out of the track, and the whole contract was carried out in a thoroughly unsatisfactory and careless way. A survey made last fall has shown, moreover, that the whole field has sunk somewhat - in places, as much as a foot. If this is the actual state of affairs, - and there seems no reason to doubt the correctness of these statements, - something must be done at once. No one will care to make a record on a track which is not level, and the one branch...
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...which Lighthead replied, "I go to the College Harvard." "Nay," quoth the dame, "'tis a naughty place. Prithee turn back." But Lighthead, still with his burden on his back, went forward, and on the morning of the second day he reached a city duller than the grave. And Lighthead, somewhat weary, did partake of refreshment and the nut-brown ale; and asking of the carle who kept the inn, he learned that the place was hight Vanity Fair, and in it was Harvard...