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Dates: during 1880-1889
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This afternoon the nine plays Amherst on Holmes field at 4 p. m. Amherst has a strong nine this year and will probably make an interesting game this afternoon...
...second game in the class championship series was played on Jarvis yesterday afternoon. The seniors beat the sophomores by a score of 7 to 6. The game was very close throughout, though Ninety-one had the lead for seven innings. McPherson and Wood were both very effective and the batting very light. The men on both nines played well though several showed the lack of practice. The features of the game were the difficult running catches of Wood and Crosby. The batting was weak and the base running sometimes careless. Very fine playing was made difficult by the cold wind...
Harvard played the Phillips Andover Academy team yesterday afternoon on Holmes field and won in a fairly well-played game. Andover has a very good team this year-much better than the average preparatory school nines. Stearns kept Harvard down well as regards hits, but he was wild in his delivery and gave eight bases on balls. Upton supported him finely, and made some very good stops, saving his pitcher several wild pitches. The team ran bases well, but Stearns' unusual wildness seemed demoralizing to the playing...
...following men will please be on Jarvis at 3.30 sharp to day: Class Game-Cummings, Corning, Weld, Simonds, Babbitt, Wood, Bowman, Guerin and Fitzhugh...
There has been much trouble in arranging the dates on which the two games usually played between the Harvard freshmen and Yale freshmen should take place. Finally, however, Yale has determined upon June 1st, the date of the Harvard-Princeton game. At a consultation held last evening, Captain Willard advised the freshmen to write to the Yale freshman and offer to accept June 1st, and to announce that the first game must take place on May 22, the bate of the postponed Yale-Princeton game, or that it will be impossible to arrange games with the Yale freshmen this year...