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Yesterday afternoon the nine had short practice in the cage of the new Carey Building. A few of the men were also sent to the diamond for throwing practice in order to accustom themselves to the new grounds. McCornick has recovered from his injury, but Lynch has a lame leg which may prevent his playing in the game today...
...teams should go into their contests, and discouraged the idea of organized cheering on the part of the undergraduates in order to support the men and help them to do better work. He said that a team ought not to need this kind of support; that it ought to accustom itself to playing under disadvantages, and that it ought to play even better when on the field of a rival team than when in Cambridge. These are, no doubt, the conditions under which an ideal team should play its games. But, from an undergraduate standpoint, there is no team which...
...Yale stroke at all, but to make an improvement in the methods of tank work. The slow work in the tank has always made it difficult for the men to acquire proper action in the boat, so it will be the purpose of this season's coaching to accustom the crew to the same line of action in tank work as in open water. Mr. Cook's plans are so unsettled that he can not yet say whether he can accompany the crew abroad...
...this afternoon and take up their headquarters at the Vendome while they are here. Peck and Hill, who are entered for the two-mile bicycle race, arrived at the Vendome yesterday. They came out to Cambridge during the day and tried the track with their wheels, in order to accustom themselves to the turns...
...Corporation in yielding Jarvis Field to the Tennis Association has created much comment. It will be generally regretted that football games will have to be held on Soldiers Field, but the inconvenience, experienced from the distance, will not be exceedingly large and will grow constantly smaller as we accustom ourselves to the change. On the other hand, the Tennis Association needed ground badly; the number of courts has been, in the past, inadequate to the demand for them, and this has hampered, and even wholly prevented, exercise by many students. We regard it, in any case, as more important that...