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SIRS-At one of the conventions of the Intercollegiate Football Association held in New York, Mr. Young delegate from Pennsylvania told Mr. Leeds delegate from Harvard, that he had seen a letter written by Captain Linn of the Harvard nine offering a certain man inducement to come to Harvard to play baseball. A few days later in its issue of November 16 under the heading "Harvard's Way of Doing it" the following article was published in the New York Herald. "Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 15. 1889.- Another instance of the prevalent and pernicious system of "ringing in" outsiders came...
...Linn writes me as follows: "In reply to your question concerning this article I wish to say that I have not made and no one has been authorized by me to make any offer whatsoever to Mr. Ammerman or to anybody else...
PHILIP B. LINN. Capt. H. U. B. B. C.(signed...
...York Herald contained an article. entitled "Harvard's Way of Dolng it," according to which a member of the Harvard nine was in Phi adelphia last week trying to get Ammerman of the University of Pennsylvanu to leave his college and enter Harvard to play on the nine. Captain Linn denies the truth of this article and says it has positively no foundation. The article is verbatim as follows...
...annual meeting of the University Base Ball club was held last evening in Holden Chapel. Captain Linn was chosen chairman. The only business transacted was the election of office rs. J. C. McCoy, '90, was elected president; R. E. Faulkner, '90, vice president; John F. Burnett, '91, manager. The statement of the treasurer's accounts will be published in the CRIMSON as soon as possible...