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Except in the last three minutes of the game, when Captain Brooks shot a goal from a difficult angle, Cornell was superior throughout. At the end of the first half the score was 1 to 0 in favor of Cornell. Each team scored once in the second period. Fish played exceptionally well during the entire game...
...April 17, the University crew easily defeated Columbia over the mile and seven-eighths course in the basin by about six lengths. The time of the University crew was 9 minutes, 54 seconds, and Columbia finished in 10 minutes, 13 seconds. The victory was a decisive one; after the first stroke , when the bow of the Columbia shell went a few inches ahead, the University crew led throughout. Early in the race it could be seen that Columbia had suffered from lack of practice, for the men were rowing more as eight individuals than as a crew...
...first game of the trip was lost to Johns Hopkins University on Saturday, April 17, but the decisive score of 11 to 1. On Wednesday, April 21, the team won from Lehigh at South Bethlehem, Pa., but the score of 4 to 3. Lehigh scored in less than half a minute after play started, but Harvard rallied strongly. The team spent Wednesday night in Philadelphia, and the next day played Annapolis at Annapolis. The Navy won, to 3. The first half of the game ended in a tie, but Annapolis completely outplayed Harvard in the second half. On Friday...
...Charlottesville, by the score of 1 to 0. An earned run in the seventh inning and Hick's remarkable pitching were responsible for the victory. Hicks struck out 15 men in the nine innings, and only 28 men faced him during the game. Not a man would have reached first for Virginia if it had not been for a bad decision by the umpire. Hicks did not allow a hit, and only one ball was knocked out of the infield. In the last half of the ninth all three Virginia batters struck...
Virginia got a man on first base in the second inning only. with one out, Cabaniss hit to Marshall, who juggled the ball. Although the throw apparently got to Briggs in time, the umpire declared the man safe. Cabaniss stole second and was again very evidently out, but he was called safe. The next two men, however, struck out. In the next inning, with two out, Harvard got two men on bases through scratch hits by Lanigan and Harvey. In the fourth Dana and Briggs both reached first, but were out trying to steal second. Dana opened the seventh inning...