Word: longwoods
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Longwood Cricket Club intends to obtain a professional to coach its team...
This shuts out such organizations as the Union Boat Club, the Beacon Ball Nine, the Union Lacrosse team, and the Longwood Cricket team. Now the members of many of these organizations are largely graduates of Harvard, and are all to be classed under the head of gentlemen amateurs. As for the question of the expense incurred in competing with these organizations, it is only necessary to say that they are all within the immediate neighborhood of Boston. What reason in the world can have actuated our faculty in passing such a ridiculous resolution, it is hard to discover. But stay...
...Longwood cricket club will employ a professional trainer next season...
...hounds started, headed by Captain Smith ; a minute later still Messrs. Norton and Matthewson, who were thus handicapped, started and were accompanied by Mr. Bigelow, a past member of the club. The scent was very bad at start and the handicapped men soon caught up. At the Longwood bridge the scent was lost for more than 15 minutes and again farther on owing to the badness of the scent and the ingenious lying of an Irishman an equal amount of time was lost. After about five miles of the course had been covered the scent improved. The course lay through...
...spite of the unfavorable aspect of the weather a few persons gathered at Longwood to see the continuation of the tournament. Presbrey vs. Taylor resulted 6-2, 6-2 in favor of the former. Preshbrey played a brilliant game, but Taylor's was not up to his usual form. Dodd beat his opponent, and this left Presbrey and Dodd to contest in the finals. As it was rapidly becoming dark, the match was postponed until Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock...