Word: closing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...this match was very good. Slocum broke 24 out of the last 25 balls, while Abbot broke 22. The score finally stood 43 to 36 in Slocum's favor. After this match, there was a competition between F. B. Austin and W. L. Allen. This match was extremely close and exciting. Both men shot at 50 clay birds, and Austin barely won, the score being...
Yale defeated Princeton at the Oelrich's lacrosse tournament in New York by a score of 2 goals to 1 goal. The playing was close, but Yale showed the better form...
...guards most carefully against over training will be the victorious one next Saturday. The race will undoubtedly be very close and interesting, as there has not been such fast rowing and such fine form exhibited in any previous year. This is of course mostly due to the great competition and to the large amount of time spent upon the water. During the last two weeks the seniors and juniors rowed twice a day, while the sophomores went out twice every other day, and the freshmen only once a day. Last Tuesday all the crews with the exception of the seniors...
...with the exception of Basset and Rhett, played poorly in the field. Yale batted quite heavily, but in the field they failed to show the sharpness and accuracy of last year's nine. On the whoie, it looks as if Harvard could look forward to a very close contest on Saturday next...
...style of play, and tends to make the nine a unit. The games with the Brown freshmen and Andover Academy are different. The playing will be more even, and '87 will have a chance to learn, perhaps, that it is necessary to keep cool when the score is close, and not get "rattled" and go to pieces if at any time their adversaries have a lead in the score. '87, with the material which it has, ought to come out of these next few games with a good clean record of victories...