Word: cricketer
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Another good athletic paper is that on "Cricket in New England and the Longwood Club," by Will Roff, in the course of which several references are made to the Harvard Cricket Club, and a picture given of the Longwood grounds while a match is under...
Word was received yesterday from Captain Patterson of the University of Pennsylvania cricket team that he would be unable to bring an eleven to Cambridge today to play the scheduled match with Harvard. The full reasons were not given, but will probably be explained within a few days. Both Harvard and Pennsylvania have been in some doubt for the last week as to the possibility of playing today, but provisions had been made for the game. It is probable that Harvard will not claim a forfeit, but will consent to play off in the autumn. As Pennsylvania has beaten Harvarford...
With the falling through of the arrangements for the cricket game with Pennsylvania the cricket club's season is practically at an end. It cannot, however, be considered concluded until the game with Pennsylvania is settled in some way. If the best plan is to play the game off in the autumn we hope that it will be surely carried out. It seems, however, far from satisfactory to postpone a championship game as long as this plan proposes. In such a case, the game cannot be a real indication of the two teams for this season. We should...
...also deserve much praise for the steady, successful game which they played against Yale. They had suffered this year from the lack of a competent coach, and they had been beaten by Yale on their own grounds. Their decisive victory in New Haven was therefore no small achievement. The cricket eleven is also to be praised for its victory at New Haven Saturday. The game was no interesting one, and it is to be hoped that it marks the beginning of regular contests with Yale in this branch of athletics...
...CRICKET.- The following men meet at 29 Hollis at 1.30 today: Quinby, S. Skinner, C. Skinner, Hewes, Davis, Corning, Henry, Austrian, Smith, Parker, MacVeagh, Wells, Griswold, Shope, Nicolson, Bates, Hinckley. It is important that every man should be present...