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...permanently higher grade of play but ought to be a reason for liberal subscriptions. When men are willing to pay without hesitation for the current expenses of their respective teams, we should expect even more willingness in aid of such a perpetual emblem. Then too, no other sport has so many advantages as tennis. The hundreds of enthusiasts in the sport should make the collection of the sum required an easy matter. Friends of tennis then, come forward and give to the college a tennis trophy which shall be a credit to the players as a body...
...that our words of encouragement have had some effect at least in reviving the noble game of "scrub" foot-ball. The games are of almost daily occurrence at present, and furnish an ample fund of amusement for crowds of spectators as well as for the men engaged in the sport. The unwillingness of the expert players to come out and referee the games seems now to be the chief blemish on the complete happiness of the amateurs. This should not continue. Any man thus asked should consider it his duty to go out and aid his twenty-two fellow students...
Yesterday's warm sunny afternoon brought together over twenty members of the Shooting Club at their grounds at Watertown. Besides the regular members there were a number of spectators present who were much interested in the sport, and who evidently enjoyed the incessant cracking of the guns, and the monotonous cry of the umpires, "lost," or "broken," as the birds were hit or missed...
...share in promoting the welfare of the game. If the 'varsity could make an arrangement granting Jarvis when unoccupied by the 'varsity games after they are arranged, we think there would be sufficient encouragement for the formation of such amateur teams. Many await the revival of Interest in this sport with much interest as by this means of scretch playing many good men are brought to the front...
...second hare and hounds run of the season will take place this afternoon, unless prevented by rain. There is no sport into which so many persons can enter with so small a chance for possible harm, and there is no form of exercise more beneficial, as well as exhilarating to men enjoying average good health. The slow runs are not severe - for the running is not continuous and there is often an opportunity for walking or even resting. No one is compelled to race for home when the break is made. Therefore, men who have never done much running need...