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Within the past few days the Yale crew has been very severely criticised by Mr. "Bob" Cook, the trainer, but as this is an annual occurrance, it does not carry much weight with it in forming an opinion of the crew. He says in brief that the watermanship is good and in advance of former years, but the stroke is very short and far from the long sweeping swing that has brought victory to Yale for the past few years. The men do not keep time, and they manage their slides poorly. They have fallen into the habit so fatal...
...Each player is required to furnish two good Wright and Ditson balls for every match in which he takes part...
Only three games were played. The showing made by Harvard in these games was not entirely satisfactory, but despite this there is every reason to think that a good nine will be developed from the material now being worked. The batteries are much stronger than it was expected they would be. Hawley pitched in the first game at Philadelpia, and his work was much better than the base hit column of the Philadelphia's would indicate. The fielding in this game, especially that of the infield was by far the worst during the trip. McLeod pitched in the second game...
...field is strong, Linn in right field is always to be depended upon, both in the field and at the bat. Mumford and Evans both did remarkably good work on the trip...
...team work. Had Hawley received the proper support, Philadelphia would have only scored three runs in this game. The redeeming feature of Harvard's work was the fielding of Mumford, who accepted seven difficult chances in centre field without an error. Linn's fielding and batting were also good. Harvard's only run was secured in the eighth inning on a clean base hit by Linn and errors of the league players. The score is as follows...