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...baseball team defeated Milton Academy, 3 to 1, at Milton, yesterday afternoon. The victory was due, in the main, to superior batting by the Freshmen, who found Tisdale for eight hits, in spite of the latter's exceptional performance of 17 strike-outs. Leighton pitched for the Freshmen, and disposed of nine of the Milton batters who faced him, maintaining a steady average throughout the game. For the Freshmen, Kerr did particularly well, securing three hits out of three times at bat, and scoring two runs. For Milton, Tisdale was conspicuous for his performance...
...Sunday, May 7. Promptly at 1.45 o'clock, the Regiment started on its way to Belmont, preceded by a covering detachment known as an Advance Guard, which was the first phase of the field exercises. Motorcyclist messengers were speeding back and forth between the Advance Guard and the Main Body, carrying messages and keeping the commanding officer informed of the result of the reconnaissances made...
When the head of the Main Body reached the railroad crossing at Concord avenue, near Bay State road, Col. Cordier received information that hostile patrols had been sighted in the vicinity of Spy Pond. He immediately notified the Commanding Officer of the Advance Guard of this information, and the latter at once despatched an officer's patrol to reconnoitre in that direction. This occasioned a short halt of the column, but within fifteen minutes a motor-cyclist arrived with a message from the front stating that the hostile patrols had been repulsed and that the progress of the command need...
...main body will follow the advance guard at 600 yards...
...clock. By holding the shoots at this hour, it is hoped that no afternoon classes will be interfered with. It is purposed to have both a University and a Freshman team which will hold practice matches. Weekly shoots with gun clubs in and about Boston will be arranged. The main objective, however, will be the intercollegiates, which will be decided on or about June 1. New automatic traps have lately been installed in the pits on Soldiers Field, and all shoots will be run as economically as possible...