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...efforts of the Cycling Association to hold an intercollegiate bicycle meet next spring are well directed and deserve to meet with success. We feel that every attempt to remove this form of sport from the list of regular track events is a step in the right direction. The bicycle races in the annual intercollegiate games have rarely been thoroughly satisfactory. In the first place the track itself, though well adapted for the other races, is almost always unsuited for bicycles and the result is that accidents to wheelmen are frequent. A tract that is intended for bicycle racing should...
There is then, in view of these facts, no good reason why bicycle racing should not hold a place of its own within the universities, having its own grounds and holding separate contests. Such an arrangement would undoubtedly be of great advantage to this sport itself, and would in no way diminish the interest now taken in the intercollegiate athletic games...
...work was excellent. Under the most favorable conditions it is far from easy to gain the interest of the students in a new team. Yesterday's victory, however, has put the ice polo team on a good footing in the University and has insured the future success of the sport at Harvard...
...polo team, though new as a University team, is organized for an old, well-known and popular sport, and therefore has none of the obstacles which are encountered by those who introduce new or little-known games. It has, however, the great disadvantage that it can be played only in an extremely limited and, at that, unreliable season and at a time of the year when athletic diversions are at a discount in the University. In the face of this disadvantage, the newly formed Harvard team has gone to work with good spirit and though beaten in the first contest...
...polo agreement with Brown will increase the interest in this sport at Harvard. The fact that the team has this year been selected in an open competition gives it a representative character which it has not had before. It is greatly to be hoped, therefore, that the intercollegiate games into which it now enters will be well contested from beginning to end. Where the name of the University is associated with a team, the latter has a responsibility which it must not forget. The University, in turn, will look with much interest on the contest and hope for a successful...