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Yesterday's games in the Leiter Cup series resulted as follows: Yewbee dammes 22, Humpty-Dumpties 2: Waverley's 15, Skidoos 11. The game between the Earthquakes and the Mugwumps which was won by the former by the score of 6 to 3 was protested and awarded to the Mugwumps...
...University second nine defeated Middlesex School at Concord on Saturday by a score of 15 to 6. The second team won by its superior batting. Middlesex took the lead in the first inning and maintained it until the fifth when Bartlett replaced Janney in the box. The former pitched very wildly during the remaining five innings, allowing 17 hits which netted the second team 13 runs. During the first four innings Taylor lacked control, but he then steadied down and gave only three scattered hits during the rest of the game. The fielding of the second team showed improvement over...
...dual meet records were made by Yale men. In the broad jump Sheffield cleard 23 feet, breaking the former record by two inmches. Gibert raised by two inches the pole vault record of 11 feet, 6 inches, held by McLanahan of Yale. The Yale team was very weak in the sprints and hurdles, but fairly strong in the distance runs, and good in the vault, broad jump and high jump. It won all the places in the two mile run and in the shot put. The distance in the latter event was 6 1-2 inches less than that made...
Last year the University team defeated Columbia by a score of 8 to 1, completely outclassing their opponents. This year both Harvard and Columbia have played Hobart, the former winning by a score of 10 to 2, and the latter losing by a score of 4 to 0. By comparative scores the game this afternoon should be an easy victory for the University team...
...exception is the article on "Old Numbers", which recalls an interesting bit of academic history. The article tells us that forty years ago the Collegian was suppressed, and the Advocate arose in its place. It does not tell how on midnight of May 10, 1866, three of the former editors of the Collegian posted announcements of the new publication, one editor working on the President's house, one on the elms in the Yard and one on University Hall. On Friday, May 11, 1866, the first edition of the Advocate was sold with a rush from Richardson's book-store...