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Dates: during 1890-1899
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AMHERST, MASS., June 1.- Harvard defeated Amherst for the second time this season by clean fielding and good batting. The features of the game were the hard hitting of McCornick and Reid and a brilliant one-hand catch by Chandler. The game was close until the seventh, when hits by Reid, Robinson, McCornick, a base on balls, and Fisher's error netted the visitors five runs...
...LEWIS, A. M.THE old stand at Foster's is the best place in Cambridge to get a good lunch. All kinds of temperance drinks...
...work of the crew this spring has been interesting and important as making a new and thorough system in Harvard boating. Whatever the result of the race at New London in June may be, the system has been proved a good one. It has resulted in a vast increase in the intelligent interest in rowing, and in getting many good eight-oared crews on the river. No one can doubt that a thoroughly solid graded system of selection has been established by which all the available material may be well trained, tested in frequent contests, and finally selected...
...trouble, if any this year, has not been with the system but with the material offered. While plenty of fairly good men have been develped, and material abounds for short distance crews, there is undeniably a lack of first-class 'Varsity oars; men of enough brawn and stamina and skill to stand four mile racing...
...exhibit plenty of life and seem to have endurance enough for the long distance. The different styles through the boat and the awkward rowing of two or three men make the crew appear less favorably than it did last year before going to Poughkeepsie, but the blade work is good and well together. The chief faults of the crew are at present unsteadiness and a hurried recover. The leg drive, although it has improved lately, is not yet as powerful as it ought...