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...Crimson netmen have played through one of the most successful seasons in the history of the sport at the University this year. After a clean up against several strong teams from below Mason and Dixon's line during the Spring trip, the team defeated Williams, Columbia, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Princeton in short order. It ran up against unexpectedly stiff opposition from Yale on May 23 and the match ended at a 4 to 4 dead-lock when a downpour of rain interrupted the final doubles match with the score tied at one set apiece between Whitbeck and Ingraham...
...match on the Worcester links this morning will be watched with keen interests by sport lovers the world over. Everyone loves a winner and especially one who starts off badly and recoups himself in the very shadow of defeat. Jone's record, whether he wins or loses, will always be remembered in golf history...
Yale will be the favorite on June 15 in view of the strong showing in the Intercollegiates, in which the Elis came in third after the University of Southern California and Princeton. Sport writers believe that Yale's strength in the field events coupled with Norton's almost certain points in the 100 and 220-yard dashes will give the Blue team a sufficient score to carry the meet...
...facilities in point of coaching and rink have no superiors in the country. The length of the season in hockey is greater than that of any other sport, major or minor, with the exception of crew and the endurance and physical courage demanded by hockey is equal, if not greater, to that required in any sport. The seating capacity of the Rink and the growing popularity of the game in the East form another argument on a purely financial basis...
Hockey answers the requirements of a major sport in every point, and failure to recognize it as such at Princeton means not only that we will lag behind the procession of other universities but that our representatives in that sport will be severely handicapped in intercollegiate competition. We feel that the sentiment of the University, if once aroused, is overwhelmingly in favor of granting it its proper place among the major sports. At the same time we realize that it takes just about an even ton of dynamite to stir the majority of the undergraduates and undergraduate organizations into action...