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...when the first game is on the New Haven diamond, and yet Spalding is obviously Coach Mahan's best bet for a win. The probable reason for this change in the usual procedure is that Pond is slated to start the game for Yale instead of the first string pitcher, Holibird, and Coach Mahan will take advantage of the opportunity by concentrating his force for the initial contest...
Along the low Ayrshire coast it is all boats and fishing and drinking your ale or "whusky" and going to the kirk. Between times, it is golfing. Everyone plays. The courses string out among the dunes like a ribbon spattered green and gray-green with the white flecks of bunkers through it, so that they say you can play a ball all the 20 miles from Ayr up to Ardrossan without leaving the fairway. Last week, at Troon, which is hard by Prestwick* and not so far southwest of Glasgow, Britain's golfing women inarched among the dunes...
...Schuylkill to watch one of the annual feature events in American rowing circles Saturday. The race for Junior eights was the semi-final event on the huge program, in which 47 crews participated. In the final race of the afternoon, the undefeated Navy crew added Pennsylvania to its string of victims, defeating the Quaker eight by three-quarters of a length in the fast time of six minutes 34 and two-fifths seconds. The record for the Henley course on the Schuylkill of six minutes and 25 seconds was made by the Yale crew last year in the finals...
...Seconds will start tomorrow morning with an imposing record of seven runs and only two defeats, those by Exeter and Andover. Puffer has been by far the most successful of the second-string pitchers, and is expected to do well against the Blue substitutes. Last year he let the Elis down with four hits, but poor support enabled the New Haven outfit...
...much sterner sort this afternoon, and he will have a dangerous opponent in the Brown leader who throws and bats left-handed. Trumbower has turned in a better record this year than any of Coach Snell's hurlers, although he is naturally a fielder, conscripted to the pitching string this year by the dearth at Providence of good hurlers...