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...Last year the sale of tickets took place in one of the rooms of Holworthy, and much trouble was caused by the lack of a suitable place for forming a line. The gentleman, too, occupying the room opposite that of the secretary of the association, although he very kindly threw his room open to the crowd, must have been much annoyed by the intrusion Probably the officers of the Co-operative Society would willingly allow the officers of the Athletic Association the use of their office at Drury's for the sale, or if not some other place equally good...
...activity showed by the rushers in getting down on the ball called for much applause from the crowd. Things were looking rather dubious for Harvard, but the team did not relax in the slightest, and when Peace made his only slip-up, just eight minutes before the close, Ayers threw himself on the ball and secured it for Harvard. Both sides lined out, and Kendall receiving the ball from the quarter-back carried it directly in front of the poles. Appleton snapped the ball to Hammond who carried it forward five or six feet, where Harvard made a solid block...
Ross McKenzie of the Toronto Lacrosse Club in a competition at the Shamrock L. C. grounds, Montreal, P. Q., Oct. 21, threw the lacrosse-ball 140 yards and 2 feet., being the greatest distance on record...
...goal darkness settled down, and it became difficult to pass or stop the ball. Flannery of New York got the ball on his stick, and carried it with a fine rush over to Harvard's side. He was met with a strong check, however, and as he fell backwards threw toward the goal. Four Harvard sticks struck out wildly in the futile endeavor to find the ball and stop it, but with aggravating deliberateness it rolled past them through the goal. A few minutes more convinced both sides that further play was useless, and New York accepted the game...
...with two Yale men out and no one on base. Wilcox stepped to the bat and got his base on seven balls. Camp knocked a grounder to Le Moyne, who picked it up very prettily. The enthusiasm of Harvard's friends was about to break loose when Le Moyne threw the ball high above Burt's head, and through the rows of seats. Before the ball could be brought back into the diamond again Camp and Wilcox had passed the home plate, thus tying the score. Platt then got his base on balls, stole second, got third on a passed...