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...some time during almost every game of base ball a slide to the plate becomes a necessity, and it is idle to say that it "is not to be thought of;" it must be made, and yesterday a candidate for one of the class nines found this out, very much to his cost, He was trying to make home on a short infield hit, and to do so a slide was absolutely necessary. He made the slide and scored the run, but in doing so his left foot struck the side of the wooden post which serves as a plate...
Track athletics at Harvard have never been in a much more encouraging state than they are now. When the team began regular training in the middle of the winter almost exactly one hundred men offered themselves as candidates, and it is rather remarkable that there are still ninety-four men at work...
...shot-putting, hammer throwing, pole-vaulting and jumping comparatively even work is done, but in the running and walking the men are so changeable from day to day that it is practicably impossible to say which of two or three men in almost every distance is the best. It is, indeed, fortunate that it is possible to enter all of the "best" men in the Intercollegiate games and that it is not necessary to select one man for each event, on the basis of the work that he has been doing in practice. Moen, Cooke, Hawes, Shead and Thayer...
There are in all four diamonds, and there is little choice among them. The one nearest Jarvis Field is almost entirely obliterated, and is little used. Just beyond is the ground used until recently by the freshmen. It is undoubtedly the best diamond, but in some places the ground is bare and heavy, and in others rough and grassy. What is true about the pitcher's and batter's box of this diamond is true of all the others. The pitchers and batsmen flounder in hollows in their attempts to deliver and bat the ball. The wooden home plate...
Dartmouth put in a different man to pitch for her yesterday and Harvard did not hit the ball quite so often or so hard as on Wednesday. Dartmouth's fielding was also better than in the game before, but was still weak. Harvard's fielding was again almost first rate. Howe pitched a good, steady game, and fielded his position well. But when the Dartmouth men did hit him they hit him hard. Decidedly the feature of the game was Alward's magnificent running catch in the fifth inning of a long, high fly from Ferguson's bat. Soule...