Word: cracking
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Among the baseball men in the Law School are Bowers the 'varsity pitcher: Graves the football player and a member of the Trinity nines of the past three years; O' Neil, the crack first baseman of the Holy Cross team; Farrell, second baseman on the Exeter nine for the past two years; Norton, last year's short stop on the Yale team; D. W. Parsons, an old third baseman on the Colby University team and for two years a member of the New England League; Foster, another old Colby player; Redding, of last year's Syracuse University nine, and others...
...Soldiers Field has been prepared for secret practice of the eleven. A fence eight feet high on three sides, and twelve on the Cambridge side, has been built about a levelled space, large enough to allow a strip of ground fifteen feet wide outside of each boundery. Every crack and hole in the fence is to be filled, so that it will be impossible to see from without. The field will be marked out before Thursday when practice there will begin. Until late in the season however, the eleven will probably keep on using Jarvis a good part...
...Berlo, the crack cyclist, has joined the Suffolk Athletic Club...
...There are only five men of last year's team who have not returned to college, and while these were some of the best men, yet the other colleges have also lost valuable men. Sherrill and Carey, the great sprinters, are gone, and so have Mapes and Williams, the crack hurdlers. This leaves Harvard an excellent chance to figure prominently in the dashes and low hurdles. Then there is a first class man to throw the hammer, and there are several excellent middle distance men and some good milers. There are more candidates this year than ever before...
...Yale the foot ball men have been out for nearly a week and Saturday Capt. Warren picked out a team to play the first game of the season against Rutgers. Most of the men who are mentioned as candidates for the eleven are new, and the outlook for a crack team at Princeton does not look very promising. Capt. Warren will play right end and Vincent '94, left. This latter has shown much ability for the position and is looked upon as a coming player. Irvine will probably secure a position on the line as will Riggs and Symms. This...