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...University field-day sports will be held on Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock in the Stadium. In addition to the regular thirteen events, a pig-back race, a 75-yard race for football players, and a 65-yard dodging race will be held on the turf. Prizes will be awarded to the men finishing first and second in each event; but no one after winning a prize will be allowed to compete in a subsequent event. Men who are to represent the University in the dual meet with Yale or who won prizes in the handicap or interclass games...
...things of all is the necessity of enlarging the portion of Soldiers Field which can be utilized by the various class, scrub and minor teams, and something is being done each year, but it would be highly desirable if the work of filling in the land and preparing new turf could be hastened, for the overcrowding of the present available space is a crying evil. Unluckily, the larger our plant becomes, the greater is the cost of keeping it up, and there is no end to the improvements which might be made...
...University cricket team was badly defeated by Haverford at Haverford on Friday by the score of 306 to 59. The defeat was due to the greatly superior batting and fielding of the Haverford team, and also to Harvard's unfamiliarity with a hard turf wicker, after practice on a softer cocoa-matting wicket. Haverford caught out seven of the University team, and both Bonbright and Hopkins scored centuries, not out. For Harvard, F. C. Taylor did the best bowling, and King scored the most runs. Only two men made double figures...
...first outdoor cricket practice was held yesterday afternoon on Holmes Field. The softness of the turf necessitated placing mats on the ground and the work consisted mainly in batting practice...
...weather conditions were extremely unfavorable; the turf was soft from rain, and in many places the men were obliged to run through mud which was ankle deep. Under such adverse conditions, the time made in the run was remarkable. The course was 6 miles and 240 yards in length, five laps of the regular steeple chase course. Forty-four jumps were taken, comprising brush fences, liverpools, and a fifteen foot water jump...