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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Union Athletic Club, of Boston, will hold their third annual Spring Games, open to all amateurs, at the Boston base-ball grounds, on Saturday, June 29, 1878, at 3 P. M. Entries will close Wednesday, June 19. The Programme will be as follows, unless circumstances demand a change...
...Hundred-Yards Dash, Final Heat. - Cowdin, Conant, Bacon, and Holmes. Won by Bacon; time, 10 3/4 sec. Cowdin was a very close second...
...Fourth-Mile-Run. - Entries : W. M. Conant, '79, T. H. Simmons, '80, R. Bacon, '80. Simmons and Bacon had a close race the entire distance. When Simmons was within six yards of the finish he turned his head to see how near was his opponent, threw himself out of his stride, and, tripping, was stunned by a fall within eight feet of the line. Bacon thus won the race...
...remarkable fielding, Nunn's fine batting and base running, and Alger's timely base hit. Harvard batted hard, but the head wind, and fine fielding of Wigton, Dodge, and Hunt lost several base-hits. Furman pitched very effectively; his delivery is very swift and hard to hit; towards the close of the game he was unable to do himself justice, owing to the swollen condition of Funkhouser's hands. If the latter can learn to hold the pitching with gloves, Harvard will have to look out for her laurels on June 7th and 8th, The applause was very impartially given...
...Freshman Nine visited New Haven last Saturday, where they were defeated by the Yale Freshmen by a score of 8 to 1. The game at first promised to be a close one, but by the end of the fifth inning the success of Yale was assured. The Harvard Nine found it impossible to bat Lamb's pitching, which was remarkably fine, while the Yale men batted Cruger with comparative ease. Had our pitcher been in the good condition in which we have seen him, their base-hit column would not have amounted to so much, we can safely...