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WENDELL GOODWIN,Captain Harvard University Crew.SUMMARY.Saratoga Springs, N. Y., July 18, 1874 - Fourth Regatta of the Rowing Association of American Colleges, - University Race for the Championship...
SINGLE-SCULL RACE.The three contestants for the single-scull championship - E. L. Philips, of Cornell, Ansley Wilcox, of Yale, and A. L. Devens, of Harvard - were called into position promptly at the close of the Freshman race, and got the word "Go" as the sun was sending his parting beams over the blue waters of the lake...
...Live Oak Club of Lynn, one of the strongest clubs of those contesting for the amateur championship of the State, visited Cambridge on last Saturday afternoon, and I layed the return game with the University Nine. The result proved disastrous to the visiting club, though they played a much stronger fielding game than the previous one at Lynn. The play of our Nine was very satisfactory. The errors were very few, while several very good plays were made. The score was twelve to one in favor of the Harvards. The result of the first game was twenty...
...fail to measure the length of our faces, on our return to Cambridge, when we heard that the ruin of the present players (to be sure, a mere trifle in itself) had destroyed the Harvard Nine, and that none but Yale and Princeton were left to struggle for the championship! There can be no doubt that the students will pray most earnestly that so sad a misfortune may not come upon us, and that, as most of us are deprived, without remedy, of seeing the mongrel* boat-race, our Nine may be persuaded not to increase the already too numerous...
...Titan who acts as tax-collector for the Nine, console themselves, almost invariably, with the reflection that they will see, at any rate, well-contested games, and, in all probability, many victories for Harvard; although it is now reported that Yale has finally decided to win the college championship for 1874. If this is really the feeling of the College, what must be the disappointment to find that this year the men, while sweltering in the July heat, either at home or at the sea-shore, are doomed to enthusiasm over a mere "elegant" newspaper report of the contest between...