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...Slugging is the disgrace of lacrosse playing, and if there are many more such exhibitions of it as that given yesterday by the New York Club in its game with Harvard, the sport must cease to be regarded with favor. Hale, the inside home, from Cambridge, who most effectively checked the play of the New York men, was brutally struck over the head by an opponent and was carried bleeding from the field. It is an unfortunate coincidence that up to that time the New York Club was getting the worst of it. Hale, being nearly killed, the home players...
...five dollars a season. But there are very few boats that can be used, only two at the most, and these are in very bad condition. Such being the case, it is not strange that there is little or no interest in private rowing. Many men who enjoy the sport would gladly pay the assessment of five dollars, if they could be reasonably sure of a fair boat. Would it not be a good plan for the boat club to look into this matter, and either by having the old boats, of which there are several, repaired, or by purchasing...
Drew nearer to me, nothing now in sport...
...Saturday is a subject of congratulation to all. At Princeton, the nine had to fight against heavy odds. The lacrosse men sustained their reputation for good steady play, and the cricket eleven by their fourth consecutive victory has roused the interests of former years, and has made that sport one in which Harvard can take a high rank. May another Saturday bring us equally good news...
...game at New Haven on Saturday revived the old stories of Yale yelling which have done so much to make that college's reputation an unenviable one in matters of sport. The treatment received by the Harvard men was, however, far more courteous than usual. Tin horns, once the essence of Yale cheering, were almost wanting, and when a man got his base on three strikes, one could address a friend a couple of yards away and still be heard distinctly. We suppose that this slight noise was an outburst of patriotism which could not be surpressed, but needed...