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...last game will be played against Haverford at the Haverford cricket grounds on Monday. This should be a close game as the teams are far more evenly matched than are Harvard and Pennsylvania. Haverford pays but little attention to any other sport and can always be depended on to put up a steady game...
...then: The attempt of the A. A. U. to make registration general in its effect on college athletes has put a check on amateur sport. An examination of the entry lists of recent contests held under the A. A. U. rules is sufficient to prove this. Further, college opinion has so crystallized that the I. C. A. A. A. A. has demanded as its rights "absolute exemption of all its members from the registration scheme of the A. A. U." There the matter stands. The Intercollegiate Association is far from wishing a break with...
...class races are to take place. It certainly seems as though there ought to be more than two crews of 'Varsity candidates kept on the river during the last two months of the year, the best months of all for rowing. If the present interest shown in the sport can be taken to mean anything, we believe that a second class race or a regatta between scrub crews, held toward the end of May, would be highly successful. The objection that such an event would be an anticlimax to the regular class race and would therefore fall flat...
...first of a series of articles by well-known writers on subjects relating to amateur sport appears in Harper 's Weekly of Feb.26. It is one of a number of contributions by John Corbin '91, on the general subject of "A Harvard Man at Oxford," the special subject being "Slacking on the Isis and the Char." It is an interesting sketch and gives promise of opening an interesting column...
...association passed a motion to the effect that the registration rule of the A. A. U. was a great drawback to amateur sport, and decided to support the Interscholastic Athletic Association in its fight with the Union on this subject...