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Word: downes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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Yesterday afternoon, the second of the games for the class championship was played with '87 and '89 as the contestants. '89 put a new man in the box who proved a failure. '87 speedily "caught on" to his delivery and batted out sixteen runs in the three innings which he...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Base-Ball. | 5/7/1887 | See Source »

The third annual exhibition of the Photographic Society is made public for the first time this year in Sever 10. We note that the society has been doing commendable work during the past year, though it is of a kind that is not noticed from day to day. There are...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Exhibition of the Photographic Society. | 5/6/1887 | See Source »

A week before Easter, I ran down to Harrow to see a series of sports by the boys of that famous school. Winchester and Eaton, Harrow and Marlborough are the four great school nurseries for Oxford and Cambridge, and there is no honest athletic pastime but what is encouraged and...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Note and Comment. | 5/4/1887 | See Source »

Between eight and nine hundred persons went up to the Polo Grounds in New York last Saturday to see the first championship ball game of the College League. About eight hundred and seventy-five of these spectators were ardent admirers of the blue and white, and were expecting an easy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Season Begun. | 5/2/1887 | See Source »

The ball was in Harvard's possession most of the last fifteen minutes, but the Independent defence was very active close in around goal and succeeded in keeping the score down. The following men played for Harvard: Latta, [Morton], Peabody, Williams, Goodale, Griffing, Gardner, Nichols, Davidson, Henshaw [Towle]. Hall, Blodgett...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lacrosse. | 4/28/1887 | See Source »

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