Word: captaining
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Terry, formerly captain of the Yale nine, is to play second base for the Staten Island Athletic Club nine this summer...
James O'Rourke, the well-know base-ball player, says the Yale nine are doing excellent work and it is his opinion the team will be stronger this year than ever. The base sliding apparatus of Captain Stagg pleased Mr. O'Rourke, and he intends recommending the use of a similar apparatus to the New York club...
...Columbia College Dramatic Club has already given $1,000 to the boat club, and on April 6 and 7 will present a burlesque entitled "Captain Kidd," the proceeds of which will also be devoted to the boat club...
...crew this year is under the direction of a committee of five, consisting of Messrs. R. C. Watson, Robert Bacon, Francis Peabody, Jr., H. W. Keyes and Captain E. C. Storrow. Heretofore the graduates have had little opportunity to give the crews the benefit of their experience and the crew has been almost entirely under the control of men who have been interested in rowing only two or three years. The plan of having the students work together in this matter with men of larger experience is considered to be an important step...
...remaining men have not rowed, although equally promising, with those mentioned. Thus the only veterans left are Captain Storrow and Davis. The most promising candidates, with the exception of the foot-ball men, practised watermanship on the river in the fall. Since then the men have been at work with the rowing machines, the chest-weights and the dumb-bells, and have taken walks and runs out-of-doors. The great trouble is that owing to the many ideas about the stroke during the past five years, it is hard to get the men to row alike. There is also...