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HARVARD POLO CLUB. It is earnestly requested that no member of the Polo Club play upon the grounds at Watertown before further notice is given, owing to the present softness of the turf...
...clay courts will be provided with durable poles, to which players for the present will affix their own nets, though the association hope to make a change in this in the future. For the turf courts, both poles and nets will be provided by the association, and set up by the man in charge, as it is necessary to be careful about the turf...
...plans for the new courts have now been definitely laid out, and work will be begun within the week, or as soon as the frost leaves the ground. Nine turf courts are to be laid out on the southeast corner of Jarvis Field, at an expense of $943.50, and five clay courts of various sorts are to belaid out on Holmes Field, east of the track, at an expense of $300. One of these courts will be chosen as pattern for 30 more clay courts, which will be laid out during this present summer on various parts of Homes...
...which were often called balls, were widely attended. Rich and poor, high and low, gathered upon the fields on warm sunny afternoons after four o'clock, (for at this hour the shops were closed by the order of the much loved King), and watched the nine disporting upon the turf, which, because of its richness, was surnamed the Diamond...
...Turf, Field and Farm says: "Dr. D. A Sargent frequently interests and instructs those who hasten to or read his discourses on athletics, but the learned gentleman overstepped the mark when in a recent lecture on. The evils of the professional tendency of modern athletics," he asserted that rowing, boating, cricket and pedestrianism had their best day, and that base ball would die out before long...