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...came to light here today. R. S. Ammerman of Danville, Pa., is a member of the University of Pennsylvania Law School and a very fine base ball player. An influential member of the Harvard nine was in town yesterday and today endeavoring to get Ammerman to leave Pennsylvania and enter Harvard. He offered to have Ammerman's tuition and board at Harvard paid and give him a cash bonus besides. He even went so far as to tell Ammerman that there was a ticket to Boston waiting for him at the Pennsylvania railroad station. Ammerman refused his offer and said...
...enclose with this a clipping from the New York Herald of the 16th inst. and will be much obliged to you if you will deny or confirm the statement therein made that an influential member of the Harvard nine endeavored to get you to leave Pennsylvania and enter Harvard...
Several Harvard men will enter for the Boston Athletic association hare and hounds run to be held next Saturday...
PRINCETON, Nov. 26-There was considerable indignation and excitement here today when the copy of the letter addressed to the Philadelphia Press by a young athlete, who was approached by Harvard men and offered remuneration for his services if he would enter Harvard and play on the Harvard base ball nine and foot ball eleven, was received, and this charge makes Harvard's position ticklish in the extreme...
...first base for the first part of the season, and then center field, on the Exeter academy nine, which defeated Andover seven to six. He was one of the heaviest batters on the team. He passed his examinations for Princeton at the end of that year but did not enter college until the fall of '87. In the spring of '88 he was first baseman on the Princeton nine and last year he again occupied that position on the team. His fielding, batting. and base running have always been strong. He has played on the Cape May nine during...