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...anything with Smith's pitching, 11 men striking out in 7 innings. Harvard sized up Gunderson from the very first inning, and pounded him all over the field during the game. In the seventh, Harvard led off with five successive hits. With two men on bases Willard made a splendid hit to right field for four bags. The ball struck on the hill and rolled way up to a building. It was the longest drive ever seen on the grounds. When the fielder reached the ball, Willard was within 40 feet of the home plate...
...splendid building of the New York Athletic Club stands on the southeast corner of Sixth Avenue and fifty-fifth Street. The membership of the club is now about 2000, while the list of applicants for admission is enormous. It is thought, however, that many members will resign, as the dues have recently been increased from $25 to $40, a change that has caused much dissatisfaction...
...social resort and a place for exercise, and numbers among its members some of the most famous athletes of New York. Every week a "boxing-night" is announced, and the contest is generally well attended. To athletes and non-athletes alike, a visit to the club-house with its splendid appointments, cannot fail to be interesting...
...success already won, and the record of last year's nine cannot fail to stimulate to every effort the nine of the present year. With the men now trying for positions we have every reason to be satisfied. Enough men of the old team remain to form a splendid body to which the new material can be added. The new men, too, give promise of making a valuable addition to the strength of the team. But what argues best for the record of the coming season is the enthusiasm of the captain. Poor captaining has cost us many a game...
...reproductions of the "National-Galerie" as of a very fine and magnificent ornament for the room. These pictures, published by the direction of the "National Galerie," are colored and of a middle great size; they exist both unframed (for rolling up) and also framed in a very splendid manner...