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...Saturday's play in the duplicate whist contest Harvard make a net gain of 17 -- 12 in the afternoon and five in the evening. Harvard played a straight long suit game and Yale played an irregular lead, showing strength in trumps. The total tricks were: Harvard 47, Yale 30. Harvard now holds a record of six victories during the last six years. The players were: Harvard--A. J. Halle 2L., E. D. Fullerton 2L., H. H. Fox '00, A. R. Campbell 1L., M. Hyman 1L., M. G. Beaman 1L., E. S. Foster '01, and N. S. Kelly 2L. Yale...
...interclass match, there is a system of rewarding good scores by "qualification pins" in somewhat the same manner as the marksman badges in the militia. A "second class" pin is given for three scores of 20 out of 25 or "first class" for two scores of 15 straight and an "expert" pin for 25 straight. These pins are made in the shape of clay birds and are marked with the initials of the club...
...battery candidates were started on light exercises with wooden dumbbells in preparation for the heavier work of the coming weeks. They were also given general directions as to their diet. The pitchers are still using straight balls entirely, the greatest attention being given to ensuring good control of the ball...
...club has arranged the following new system of qualifications. If a man records three scores of twenty out of twenty-five he is put into class 2; if he makes two fifteen straights he comes into class 1; and if he makes twenty-five straight he is classed as expert...
...first boat used at Harvard, was typical of the other boats soon afterwards bought by the different clubs. It was 37 feet long of lap-streak construction, heavy and low in the water, and the thole pins were sunk in the gunwale. There was no shear, the stem was straight and the men rowed in red cushions; the whole having the appearance of a man-of-war's gig at the present time...