Word: closed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...opposing pitchers are probably the strongest college players who have occupied the box this year, and the contest between them was very close. Paine was more effective than his rival, but did not have particularly good control and was rather erratic in his fielding during the early part of the game. In the first inning he gave two bases on balls and made a wild pitch and a wild throw to first. These errors, with two sacrifice hits, gave Princeton a lead which Harvard could not overcome. From this point until the tenth inning Paine's pitching was faultless...
...best record in batting up to date is Clarkson. But the rate is very close as will be seen by the following table...
...match between Wrenn and Ware was much better played and was very close. Wrenn got the first set, 6-3; then Ware took the second, 6-4, by good smashing at the net. In the third set both men improved, and the tennis was remarkably good. Both men ran up on their service, and each won on his service until the score was 3-3. Wrenn won the next two games. Ware got the ninth, although Wrenn was in one point of the match four times in this game, but then Wrenn won the next game...
...probably know, it was proposed last year to remove all the seats from Holmes field at the close of college. The removal, however, was delayed. This year the plan of giving up Holmes Field as an athletic ground was again taken up and the Corporation voted that the seats be taken from the Field by July 1 of this year...
...quiet day with oarsmen in training for a race, but this has been not only an unusually quiet day but one of very depressing influences upon the crews of Harvard. Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania. It rained hard from daybreak to dusk. All of the oarsmen kept close to quarters all day, reading and sleeping. The Pennsylvanians had planned a trip up the river on their launch to make friendly calls on their neighbors of Harvard and Columbia, but the water was so rough that the proposed visitations were abandoned...