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...score of 2 to 1. It was this game that developed Hayes's pitching and gave the men the necessary confidence in themselves...
Since the Pennsylvania game the makeup of the nine has been considerably changed and the result has shown such a change justifiable. Lewis and Sears of the second nine were tried at first base and left field respectively in place of Foster and Lynch, who was substituted for Rand after the latter's injury. Notwithstanding the loss of Rand and the reversal of positions the 'Varsity defeated both Brown and Holy Cross by heavy hitting and clean fielding. Since the Holy Cross game, Harvard has been having very light practice, which owing to the graduate coaching has done much...
With one exception the team is in excellent condition. Rand will start in the game but if his knee prevents him playing the game out Chandler will go into centre field...
Harvard plays the first game of the Yale series this afternoon on Soldiers Field at 3 o'clock. After recently defeating Princeton in two successive games, Yale would seem to have a decided advantage over Harvard. Yale's nine not only made more hits in the series, but also showed far more life and spirit than did Harvard in the two Princeton games. In fact Yale has shown a remarkable improvement over her play early in the season...
Yesterday afternoon the nine had its final practice before the Yale game. The men put considerable snap in their play, and the practice, though short, was unusually sharp and clean. Most of the time was spent in batting, with Hayes and C. J. Paine, Jr., '97, in the box. In the fielding, during the end of the practice, Chandler covered centre field while Burgess was moved to right. In left, Sears took the place of Rand, whose knee is still in such condition that it renders his chances of playing Friday rather doubtful. The nine was coached by C. Smith...