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Crowds have watched the practice of both football and track teams, but the work in the first sport has been too limited as yet to arouse great enthusiasm, and the field athletes have been the centre of attraction. The annual fall tennis tournament has also been progressing, not, however, with any special degree of spirit. By the official averages of the nine which have just been published Carter leads the batting for the whole season and for the championship games with percentages of 429 and 467 respectively, and Stephenson has the highest fielding average, 972, of the men playing...
...greatest interest is being taken in the coming Yale-Cambridge games, which are to take place on Manhattan field on Oct. 5, not only by the Yale undergraduates, but by all the athleticpublic, believing that College games of this nature present the best and purest form of amateur sport. Yale is doing everything to make the meeting worthy of an international name; one to which the Englishmen will look back with pleasure. In this the college has had the firm support of the alumni, and there is no doubt that the event will be as brilliant from a social...
While we do not hold you or your team responsible for these accusations, it was in your power to have contradicted them and thus to have neutralized their serious effect, not only upon us but upon the sport...
...Harvard, must be done well for the sake of the name, if for no other reason. In the case of lacrosse, however, there is much in the game itself which entitles it to a prosperous continuance. It has all the characteristics which are necessary to make an athletic sport stay permanently in favor; it offers an opportunity for vigorous exercise to a class of men who without it would find no very satisfactory way of employing their energies. It is unfortunate that the game was ever allowed to drop out of the list of Harvard sports...
...least not fair to pass judgment on lacrosse in ignorance of what its merits really are. The games which the managers have arranged to be played in Cambridge give the opportunity to form some reasonable estimate of the worth of the sport. Students will find themselves amply repaid for attending the game this afternoon by the interest of the contest itself. At any rate a considerable attendance is due in acknowledgement of the efforts which the promoters of lacrosse have made, and still are making, in its behalf...