Word: contesting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hits with a total of nine. Harvard, therefore, kept up her reputation for good fielding, and made more hits than she has made in either of the other championship games. Although yesterday's defeat renders it next to impossible for Harvard to gain first place in the championship contest, still the chances of her defeating Yale are much better than before, on account of the improvement in the batting...
...both these games was all that could have been wished for; but it is folly to expect the nine to win games without being able to bat, and it is equal folly to expect a nine to be able to bat without any practice. Our nine enters the championship contest this year heavily handicapped from lack of practice in batting good pitchers. This practice has been acquired in previous years either by playing professional nines or by being under a professional coach through the winter. Every other college nine has had the benefit of one or both these methods...
...year; but it is essential for the success of the nine next year and for coming years that the rule should be repealed. And the sooner it is repealed the better; for the nine needs some encouragement to believe that it will not have to enter next year's contest handicapped as it is this...
...bicycle races at Beacon Park this afternoon will be of unusual interest. Some of the best amateur riders in the country are entered, and close and exciting races may be expected. The fact that a number of Harvard men expect to contest, who are candidates for the Mott Haven team, will give us an opportunity of judging of our chances in the bicycle race at New York, especially as one of the contestants in the mile race is Yale's representative. The custom of having races under the auspices of a college association open to all amateurs...
...expected that one of the most interesting features of the coming tennis tournament at Longwood will be the contest in the doubles between Messrs. Dwight and Sears, '83, and Messrs. J. S. Clark, '83, of Harvard, and C. M. Clark of Philadelphia...