Word: longwoods
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...cricket team play the Longwoods this afternoon at Longwood...
About two hundred people assembled at the grounds of the Longwood Cricket Club yesterday, to witness the second game with the Harvards. The Longwoods went first to the bat, and by means of the heavy batting of Wright, succeeded in securing 102 runs before giving place to the Harvards. The Cambridge team, however, made fifty-nine runs on five wickets, the game thereby resulting in a draw. Had time permitted the continuance of the game, a victory would probably have been won by the crimson. A feature of the game was the striking of Clark (thirty-seven runs...
...expected that one of the most interesting features of the coming tennis tournament at Longwood will be the contest in the doubles between Messrs. Dwight and Sears, '83, and Messrs. J. S. Clark, '83, of Harvard, and C. M. Clark of Philadelphia...
...game between the Harvard and Longwood cricket teams yesterday afternoon resulted in an easy victory for the Longwoods. The result was not wholly unexpected, as the fine playing and long practice of the Longwoods has resulted in placing them at the head of the cricket teams in this State. The Longwoods went to the bat with Clark and Biddle bowling for Harvard. After a little preliminary skirmishing the score gradually commenced to creep up, although the magnificent bowling of Clark proved embarrassing to all opponents, with the exception of Joues and Wright. The Longwoods left the bat with eighty-three...
...Longwood and Harvard cricket clubs will play on the grounds of the former club, corner of Brookline and Longwood avenues, today, commencing at 2 o'clock...