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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...First day of the college final examinations...
Yesterday the eleven won a ball from the Brockton club. Garrett for the first time came off and showed what a finished bat he is. Brown also did fine work, both with the bat and the ball. Sullivan, Lee and Balch made good catches, especially Sullivan. The score...
After losing yesterday's game, Harvard's chances for the championship are well nigh gone. By winning the four remaining games we shall get the first place, but only by a decided improvement can we do this. If we lose again to Princeton on Saturday, we will have no hope whatever. The nine has shown that it could play a strong game and we hope that from now on it will retrieve itself. Saturday's game must be won, but cannot be by any such listless, weak playing as was seen yesterday...
...Interscholastic Association of Amateur Athletes of New England held its first annual championship games on Holmes field yesterday morning. The meeting was witnessed by five hundred people, most of whom were friends of the contestants. Before the meeting was half finished, the rain came down in torrents, but the spectators hoisted their umbrellas and watched the contests to the close. The following is a list of the thirteen events with the names of the first and second man in each, and the time or distance...
...yards dash-First heat. A. Emery, Worcester; time 10 4 5 seconds; B. G. Waters, Boston Latin, second. Second heat: T. E. Sherwin, Roxbury Latin, time 11 seconds; C. L. Hodgkins, English High, second. Final heat: A. Emery, Worcester, time 10 3-5 seconds; T. E. Sherwin, Roxbury Latin, second...