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...college paper to publish offers to bet any more than we would consider it proper for the News to sell pools officially, or to offer through the medium of its columns to give odds that their next issue will partake more of the character of the New York Clipper than the News of Friday. The fact that the recipient of a letter of this kind does not have good taste enough to withhold it from publication is no excuse for the lack of judgment of the editors of the News in allowing it to appear in print...
...brains to be turned wild or to be driven crazy with rapture"; victory has perched herself too frequently, under Captain Thayer's able leadership, upon our banners, to allow us to be more than ordinarily moved in regard to a matter which such excellent base-ball authority as the Clipper as well as ourselves regarded as a foregone conclusion in our favor. To Captain Thayer we have only to reiterate our praises for his excellent services both as a general and as a player, and our thanks for the impetus and manly tone he has infused into base-ball...
...desire to keep up with the athletic world at home and abroad. We hope our column may supply this want, and that its excellence may prove our excuse for inserting it. The information contained in it will be taken mainly from Bell's Life, Sporting and Dramatic News, Clipper, Turf, Field, and Farm, and the reliable sheet before mentioned. Thus we hope to present to our readers a bird's-eye view of amateur athletic sports of every place and of every kind...
Harvard vs. Clipper 7 - 0 October...
...pugilist who had died out of the fighting world. He was bound hand and foot, so that it was impossible for him to defend himself. Not a muscle moved; he preserved a stolid indifference as our lecturer squared off in front of him, and (in the language of the "Clipper" reporter, who sat next me) "let out his bunch of fives, caught him on the nob, and drew the claret profusely." "See," cried the Professor, "It is impossible for him to resist that attack!" It was, indeed. These exhibitions of brutality were made two or three times every lecture, until...