Word: haven
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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These indoor games give valuable practice in performing in competition and show, to some extent who are likely to develop into point winners for the Mott Haven team in the spring. It is encouraging to see so many men enter them...
...CRIMSON is strongly in favor of the petition that temporary grand stands be erected and that the nine and the Mott Haven team be allowed to continue the use of Holmes Field. Even those opposed to the petition must admit that it will be best for the success of the two teams, both in their finances and in their training, and for the convenience of spectators at their games that they should remain on Holmes field. Leaving out of consideration the cost of laying out a new diamond and a new cinder track on Soldiers Field, which would amount...
...Mott Haven team would suffer greatly. A good cinder track can be built and put into good condition, under the most favorable circumstances, in not less than two or three years. On the soggy, infirm ground of Soldiers Field it would take longer. Some of the track athletic authorities, indeed, believe that an even, smooth and firm track could never be built and kept in condition...
...these reasons the nine and the Mott Haven team should be allowed to use Holmes Field at least another year. If at any time the welfare of the University demands the ground occupied by the diamond and the track for purposes nearer to the aims and needs of Harvard, athletics should willingly be removed. But as yet no immediate need for the ground has been made known to the undergraduates at large. Until such a need is shown, the nine and the track team should be unmolested and should be allowed to build all necessary grandstands on Holmes Field...
...many as two hundred and fifty men are now working every day in the Mott Haven squad for the different events. Yesterday for the first time trial heats of 40 yards were run by a portion of the sprinters, but on account of the short time the men have been in training they were rather slow, five seconds being about the average time made...