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...University tennis team opened its home schedule with a clean sweep against Amherst, winning 6 matches to 0 in straight sets at the Jarvis Field courts on Saturday afternoon. The feature match was one of the doubles sets in which Captain R. N. Williams, 2d, '16 and G. C. Caner '17 defeated Cady and McCloy 6-0, 11-9. None of the University players was hard pressed to win in the singles, although Williams and Cady played two very close sets...
...last spring practice football game the Blacks defeated the Reds 7 to 0. The touchdown came in the last period of play when M. Saddler '17 carried the ball across the Reds' goal line on a straight buck through centre. Just previous to the winning play, G. Sagar '17 caught a forward pass from M. Taylor '18 and ran half the length of the field...
...worked the Yale crew unusually hard for this time of year, making it row about fifteen miles a day, and raising the stroke to thirty when it rows for speed. The Yale crews are rowing in English shells, with thole-pin rigs, but the seats are arranged in a straight line. The first crew contains three members of last year's regular crew, Captain A. D. Sturtevant., J. R. Sheldon...
...advocates of the military camps say that they also are hopeful, but that in the meantime we must be practical, we must face the situation as we find it. Ability to build a pontoon bridge, to "shoot straight", has a suggestion of practicality which it is hard to overcome. But one clear-sighted diplomat, one President Wilson, is of more practical worth for the actual preservation of peace than all our present navies and soldiers combined. As one correspondent has said, it is the voter who must ultimately decide this question, who must understand his own interests well enough...
...passing and shooting were much more accurate than in the game with the B. A. A. last Saturday, G. Townsend played a remarkably consistent game and his individual brilliancy was the feature of the practice. Townsend scored five goals for Team A, two from scrimmage and three from long, straight, shots, Doty in Captain Claflin's place, played a strong though somewhat erratic game, taking the puck down the rink several times and on one of these dashes succeeding in driving the puck past Weld for a score. Eckfeldt scored the single tally for Team B, the final score being...