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...much quickness of eye and hand and I may say foot, as either of the games mentioned, but at the same time a learner can enjoy it as well as an old hand. Coming, as it does, in the winter, it will conflict with none of our other sports. Indeed, it might be made a valuable auxiliary to them as a form of winter training. Many a man does not go to the gymnasium, because he finds it dull work to pull at the chest weights, and many another, who does go, would gladly participate in some out door sport...
Perhaps a certain class of sport, that of wrestling, in the various modes in which it is conducted, has the most to recommend it, and the one followed in the North of England is the best of all. It has had amongst its devotees men of tethers and of high cultivation. It has been said of a certain college, that it turned out better wrestlers than parsons. Certainly some of them made a greater figure in the ring, and a more successful one. than in the pulpit. At the end of last century and even at the beginning...
...course now led towards the Somerville bleachery, and over Winter hill where the omnipresent "mucker" had laid false trails and baffled the hounds for several minutes. Picket fences, unpleasant bogs, vegetable gardens, etc, had to be crossed, but these difficulties only served to give more excitement to the sport...
...wind that swept across Holmes Field last Saturday promised anything but good sport in the events to be contested, and kept the 200 spectators, among whom were a few ladies, in anything but a comfortable condition. At 2.45 the first event was called This was the first heat...
...recently been dealt to the tennis interest ; the severest being the reduction in the number of available courts caused by the construction of the new track and diamond on Holmes field. The defeat too of our representatives at Hartford cannot fail to produce a depressing effect. If, then, this sport, on which so many undergraduates depend for the principal means of exercise, is to be maintained in our midst, every facility for its pursuit must be afforded. We therefore invite the tennis men to offer, through our columns their suggestions as to any ways in which the existing scheme...