Word: closed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...first Yale-Princeton baseball game, held in New Haven Saturday, was won by Yale after a very close and exciting contrast. Yale took a big lead in the first inning, earning four runs off Wilson while there were still no men out. Jayne then replaced Wilson, and for the rest of the game Yale was held down to nine hits...
Both schools have unusually strong teams and a close game may be expected. Andover has played rather the better ball so far. In the game with Yale on May 14 Andover was only beaten by the score of 7 to 6, which shows that the school team must be an exceptionally strong...
When the games were interrupted, Hopkinson stood first with twelve points, English High being a close second with eleven. In the seven events that were finished, three records were broken and one equalled. Hallowell, of Hopkinson, won the high hurdles in 16 2-5s., lowering W. W. Hoyt's record by one second. In the 880-yards run, McGarrett, of the Cambridge High and Latin, equalled R. F. Hanson's record of 2m. 1 1-5s. In the high jump, Rotch, of Hopkinson, made a new record of 5 ft. 8 in., raising C. J. Paine's record...
Both hurdle races should be very close. J. W. Hallowell of Hopkinson is a very promising man in the high hurdles, and Converse of English High is also very fast. Converse is thought to be a certain winner of the low hurdles, as he has won this event in both national and local interscholastic meets before. J. J. Peters of Andover is another good hurdler...
Many of the schools, especially Andover and Exeter, have new men entered and with the prospect of some of these being good, the games should be interesting and close throughout...