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...knows what is expected of him, and the players are not apt to get "rattled" at critical moments. The batting Saturday was not heavy, but when we consider the little practice that the nine has had against effective pitchers it is far from discouraging. The freshmen played a splendid game on Holmes with their Amherst compeers, and have good reason to congratulate themselves, but it speaks poorly for the class that they give such slight encouragement to their nine. At the game Saturday, barely forty freshmen were present, and though the time set for the game was unfortunate, at least...
...much time and energy is spent upon our military duties, that all athletic sports are practically abandoned. We have no base-ball, no foot-ball, no boating, although the material for either of the last two is splendid, and some day we may have in the field, an eleven with a five pound heavier average than Yale...
...splendid new club house of the New York Athletic Club is probably the finest building in the country belonging to an athletic organization. Beside the usual rooms of a club house it contains a gymnasium hall, and other rooms devoted to athletic exercises. The gymnasium hall occupies the whole of what would ordinarily be two stories at the top of the building. Its size may be approximated in the mind of the reader, by learning that the track which is in a balcony like the one in the Hemenway gymnasium, is 21 laps, while the Harvard track measures...
...game at New York, yesterday, was a splendid struggle for the championship on the part of both elevens. We have not as yet received the details, but from a telegram we learn that the Blue was victorious by the narrow margin of 6 to 4. It is said that Richards, of Yale, was dangerously hurt...
...minutes 33 1-2 seconds, L. Sullivan being the only other competitor. Putting the shot was a walkover for C. H. Pennypacker, and so was the hurdle race for F. B. Lund. T. D. Davidson and A. F. Holden contested the quarter-mile run. Davidson ran in splendid form, winning in the time of 1 minute, Holden suddenly stopped running part way around, and so, for a second time, what promised to be an exciting contest was far from that. The 220-yards dash was a very well contested event. There were four entries. Balch, Porter, Lund and Holden...