Word: beatings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Yale seems determined to stick by her new stroke this year. Yale men in general seem to favor it, the News advocates it, and the Record says : "It was not their stroke or their boat that beat the Yale crew, but a misfortune which could not have been foreseen or averted. All that we can wish for is the same stroke and the same crew next June...
...York Tribune correspondent at New London thus speaks of the place : "This quiet, staid and eminently respectable old town utterly refuses to allow its pulse to be hastened a single beat by the agitations of college rivalries. The ancient mariners who haunt the wharves vary their brilliant flashes of expectoration with languid converse about the oarsmen, always ending with the contemptuous query, "What could them college chaps do in a whaleboat for a ten-mile pull in the teeth of a gale o' wind?" A few shop-keepers with unwonted enterprise have hung out the blue and white; fresh store...
Yale is congratulating herself on the unexpected feat (or feet, if you will,) of Brooks, '85, who beat Myers in the 220 yards race. Mr. Wendell's gratulatory telegram is regarded as another proof of the good will existing between the two colleges...
...launch. The crew carried with them two paper shells and a Blakie pair oar. The Columbia race Saturday will probably take place at 3 P. M. The Yale crew is expected at New London in a day or two. The general impression at New London is that Harvard will beat Columbia Saturday, but after a close race Yale will beat Harvard next week...
...amateur championship games occur at New York today at 3 P. M., on the Polo grounds. Myers, the amateur champion, Wilmer, an ex-champion at short distances, and Brooks, of Yale, will meet in the short runs, and it is thought by the friends of Brooks that he will beat Myers or force him to lower all previous records in the 100 and 220 yards runs. Goodwin, '84, will compete with Myers, Jesurun and Smith in the one-half mile run. Fredericks, the mile champion for the last two years, will find men worthy of his steel, while...