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Among the various sports shich have lately sprung into existence in this country, there is none that promises to become more popular or to give more satisfaction to those who engage in it than canoeing. After an existence of scarcely more than a dozen years on this side of the water, it has taken a firm hold, and the number of its devotees is rapidly increasing. Combining, as it does, the requisites of exercise, amusement, and excitement, it offers strong inducements to lovers of out-door sports. The popularity of the sport is shown by the existence of the American...
...resulted in more benefit to the football interest at Harvard than one could be led to suppose. They did more than to merely amuse the men who made up the contesting elevens, and the score or so of their friends who strolled out to the field to witness the sport, applaud the good plays, and, perhaps, laugh at the many ludicrous incidents which are sure to occur in a scrub game. As a direct result of these impromptu games many men were led to go upon the field as candidates for our eleven of this fall, and many promising players...
...management of the cricket club has determined to do its best this year to put the sport on a firm practical basis. Grounds will be secured, it is expected, on the western end of Holmes Field where a crease will be laid out and practice begun at once. For a number of years the cricket club has lingered among us, occasionally playing a game and occasionally losing a game, and we wish we could add, occasionally winning a game. However, if the life of several Harvard organizations depended upon the victories, which had been won, we fear considerable time would...
...tournament at Hartford next week to decide the college championship at tennis will be the best both in point of numbers and the quality of play which the association has ever held. This is the third year of the intercollegiate association, and each year the interest in the sport has spread wider and wider among all the colleges. This year the number of colleges which expect to be represented is eleven, and as many of the best players in the country are still students the playing will not be inferior to the great Newport tournament for the championship...
...array of players in the coming tournament at Hartford presents is a rare one and one which those interested in the game ought not to miss. Harvard should send, not only the best men to the tournament, but also a respectable body of spectators to witness the sport. Here is something in which we are almost certain of winning, if such a result is an argument for going. Then again there is nothing so encouraging to the players engaged as the knowledge that some friends are present to support and cheer them. Yale always sends a good delegation to tournaments...