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...Freshman tennis team beat Milton yesterday 6-1, playing its second match this season. M. I. Hill '30 playing number one beat Green 6-1, 6-2 in a onesided match. H. S. Ingraham '30 in the closest contest of the afternoon just managed to eke out a victory over Upton 7-5, 5-7, 10-8. F. B. Ward '30 easily overcame Wolcott 6-3, 6-1, while S. W. Winslow 3rd 30 beat Beyer 6-2, 6-3, and F. K. Trask Jr., '30 beat Nichols...
...defeats, those by Exeter and Andover. Puffer has been by far the most successful of the second-string pitchers, and is expected to do well against the Blue substitutes. Last year he let the Elis down with four hits, but poor support enabled the New Haven outfit to eke...
...Arena from 6 until 7 o' clock. Although defeated decisively by the Eli sextet two weeks ago, and on the short end of a 3 to 1 game with the Dartmouth team. Princeton has come along fast lately, and it will take the Crimson's best to eke out a win tonight. Harvard rules a favorite by virtue of as Yale win, but the football game last fall was a fitting example of the value of comparative scores when Harvard and Princeton meet...
...last week a blind violinist played in the street in front of the Fort Pitt Hotel, Pittsburgh. Blind musicians have doubtless played there before-they are not infrequent. A music lover, goaded to desperation, will from time to time resort to bribery to make them stop. Thus they eke out their precarious livelihood. In this case, strange things happened. Men, hurrying past, paused, listened, stayed. A crowd gathered. An occasional ear was strained to catch the excellences of an unexpected technique. For two hours the crowd stood, respectfully attentive to the program of classical favorites-Schumann's Traumerei...
...mediocre exhibition of basket-ball, the Crimson five just managed to eke out a 31-30 victory over the St. Francis quintet from New York City. The team work and close guarding which had characterized the University play in the Dartmouth game was noticeably lacking, and the team must take a decided brace if a victory is to be gained over Yale Tuesday night in New Haven...