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...member of '84 at Yale is said to possess a terrier famous for rat-hunting, as well as a pet badger. The following highly dramatic account of their actions appears in a prominent place in a New York daily. The story is very edifying. The fable of the badger reads: "The badger escaped from its owner one morning, and took refuge in the catch-basin to a sewer, corner of State and Chapel streets, and the police and general public were much interested in effecting the capture of the animal. Crowds of men and boys gathered at the sewer entrance...
...same gentleman, nothing discouraged by his adventure in the sporting field, immediately entered into another enterprise. Yesterday there came to New Haven, by the Adams Express Company, a crate containing thirty lively rats. It was soon made known that the little terrier, Fannie, who had not succeeded in badger hunting, was to be exercised in rat-killing. As soon as the rats arrived the owner's classmates were overjoyed. They abandoned their lessons, and hastily repaired to a convenient yard, where the crate with its squealing live stock was conveniently placed for the exhibition which came off this afternoon. Fannie...
BATTING ORDER.Yale - Platt, 3 b.; Camp, s. s.; S. Hopkins, 1 b.; Badger, 2 b.; Smith, c. f.; Wilcox, r. f.; Jones, p.; Hubbard, c.; H. Hopkins...
...yards' dash, B. Cumming, 0.11 3/4; half-mile run, G. W. Lay, 2.23 1/2; running high jump, C. K. Billings, 5 feet; 220 yards' dash, Barclay Johnson, 0.27 1/2; throwing hammer, C. A. Wight, 57 feet 5 inches. The officers were Theodore Cuyler, executive committee; W. A. Badger and H. B. Platt, judges; W. B. Hill, referee...
...Badger complains because there are not more girls in the Wisconsin State University...