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Next year the present splendid infield of the Boston nine - Morrill, Burdock, Wise and Sutton - will be retained, and Buffington will also be a member of the team. Richardson, Rowe, Brouthers, Galvin, Force and Foley have been engaged by the Buffalos. The Chicagos will only make one change, letting Quest go and replacing him by Gerhardt, if the latter be reinstated. Ewing of the Troys has had several very tempting offers, and will without doubt play as change catcher for Chicago or with the New York League team. The Clevelands have retained nearly all their present nine, including Glasscock, Dunlap...
...following comments on the personnel of the Harvard crew are given : "Curtis, slender, intellectual of countenance, as becomes a true Bostonian, who proved last year that a man may lack avoirdupois, wear eye-glasses, and yet row a splendid race, sets the crew a beautiful stroke. Behind him the ponderous Chalfant, with a trunk like Schwartz's and with massive legs and thighs, in boating parlance, "puts plenty of beef into his oar" at every stroke. Then come Hudgens, tall and squarely built; Clark and Hammond, men of height and brawn; Sawyer at No. 2, where he rowed last year...
...climax by giving to her greatest rival about the last game she had at her disposal. The more we think of the game the more we are perplexed. The game was lost by the wildness of our pitcher and by one very bad error which alone marred the otherwise splendid record of the man who made it. A base on balls and a wild throw lost a game which had been won on its merits. The result of this game is but another illustration of the prevailing weakness of college players. They can generally pick up balls and make brilliant...
Interest is being awakened in athletics in France. A splendid fete of athletes has been held at Reims, at which about 2,000 young men from all parts of France assisted. The minister of public instruction attended the banquet, and said that if his hopes and his programme were only adhered to, France would in a few years' time be able to point with pride to a race of active and manly youths, somewhat different in physique and appearance from the pallid boys who loiter about a small courtyard, or walk in procession through the streets on half-holidays...
...Brown, and matters began to look dubious for Harvard. The supporters of the crimson, however, kept up courage and gave the nine nine rousing cheers as they came to bat, and the sequel showed that their encouragement was not in vain. Le Moyne struck out; Coolidge made a splendid drive to left, which nearly bored a hole through the high board fence which forms a worthy assistant to the church in preventing home runs. Olmsted followed with a hit which succeeded in overreaching the fence, but was balked by the wire screen which, to make assurance doubly sure, is built...