Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Princeton and Harvard will withdraw from the Intercollegiate Base-ball Association at the convention which is to be held in Springfield on Friday, and on Saturday there will be a meeting of the delegates of Princeton, Columbia and Harvard in Boston to form a new association. We are informed upon the best authority that Yale will also send delegates and enter the new league. The leading base-ball men of Yale have been from the first strongly in favor of the triple league, and their action in the matter has been perfectly honest and straightforward, but they were hampered...
...better nine than any one of those which the smaller colleges in the existing league will have. It was also stated that Columbia would enter a league with Harvard and Princeton. So it was moved and carried that it was the sentiment of the meeting that Harvard should withdraw from the Intercollegiate Base-Ball Association, and with Princeton and Columbia from a new association to which Yale was to be admitted if she wished, though no undue concessions were to be made to Yale. It was also moved and carried that it was the sentiment of the meeting that...
...mass meeting last evening. Harvard has taken a fair and decided position and has shown that she will not allow her policy to be dictated by the action of any other college. The meeting showed the universal sentiment of the college, that we have gone too far to withdraw, and that a new base-ball association must be formed. At a mass meeting held on Wednesday, Yale voted to empower her delegates to enter any league except a triple one composed of Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. When Yale sees the position which Harvard has taken and understands that...
...Yale insists on imposing conditions, there can be no doubt about the position Harvard should take. Under those circumstances we should withdraw at once, and refuse to play any games whatever with Yale until she should see fit to play with us on fair terms. Princeton undoubtedly, regards the matter in the same light. Let us then stand firm for the main idea of the original proposition and take no half-way measures...
There will be a meeting in Boylston Hall this evening to decide whether Harvard will withdraw from the Inter-collegiate Base-Ball Association and enter a new association with Yale and Princeton. Every one in college who is at all interested in base-ball should make it a point to attend this meeting if possible. A very important step is proposed, and it should be decided upon only after a full discussion of the subject. This question has been under consideration for some time by those who have the base-ball interests of the college most at heart. After mature...