Word: springfields
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Walter Ellsworth Coe, Meriden, Conn.; Wesley Roswell Coe, Middlefield, Conn.; Claude Gignoux, Montoe, N. Y.; George Arthur Gordon, Savannah, Ga.; David Cullen Griggs, Waterbury, Conn.; Herbert William Hamlin, Chicago; John Henry Hammond, Jr., St. Paul; Josiah Harman, Philadelphia; Samuel Atkinson Hoesh, Denver; Norman Dwight Harris, Chicago; Thomas Simmons Homans, Springfield, Mass.; Henry Dwight Hunt, Columbia, Conn.; Gustave Erwin Huttlemaier, Knoxville, Tenn...
...fortunate in having from the Yale representatives at the Springfield conference a clear statement of the position taken by Yale and of the reasons why this stand was taken. While the reasons are very clearly stated, they appear to us to be not altogether logical. In the first place there is the matter of "playing the game on neutral grounds before either of the other two games," - another way of saying to play the last game of the series on the grounds of either one of the colleges, in this instance on Yale grounds. To this matter Yale said that...
...would not be a failure in point of view of numbers or of interest. Two years ago when we last played Yale in base ball, the first Yale game played in Cambridge took in $2260 as gate money; the class day game took in $3880 and the game at Springfield $3,500. This certainly does not show such a failure in numbers as Yale suggests...
...following letter from the Yale delegates to the recent base ball conference at Springfield appeared in the Yale News of Wednesday morning...
...yesterday's Harvard Crimson there appeared an account of what took place at the conference between the representatives of Yale and Harvard, which was held at Springfield on Monday. While the facts as published are true, the article, as a whole, is is apt to be misleading as to the reasonableness of Yale's position, because the reasons given in the meeting for our refusal to agree to Harvard's propositions are not stated. Our proposition was to play three games, one at Cambridge on June 23d, one on New Haven on June 28th, and a third to take place...