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...excitement which was felt in the decisive Yale-Harvard base ball game last June is well illustrated by the following: "The opinion was well-nigh universal that for intense, sustained and towards the last positively painful interest, the game has been unequalled in the last ten years. In the eighth inning when Harvard had three men on the bases and only one man out, and needed only two runs to tie the game, the suppressed excitement was almost unbearable. I saw graduates of the 'fifties and 'sixties around me who were so nervous that they had to sit down...
...their success. In some of its features the game was very brilliantly played, and every man on the nine played well. We might add, too, that the game was won over no feeble opponents. The Yale men have nothing to be ashamed of, for they played well nigh as strong a game as the victors, and were defeated simply by being out-played...
...pitching of Winslow and catching of Crocker were well nigh perfect. Smith did well on first base, and all of the out-fielders distinguished themselves ; Tilden doing very well...
...addition of Van Sinderen to the rear of the boat now gives Columbia a four sitting together that it would be well nigh impossible to duplicate for uniformity in style and general excellence... The work done by the crew during the two months they have been in the boat, has had the effect of perfecting them in uniformity of time, and there is plenty of 'lift' to the boat when on the stroke...
...offer these suggestions in the hope that more general satisfaction can be obtained from the use of the grounds now occupied by tennis. We feel that a perfectly satisfactory solution of the difficulty is well-nigh impossible, but as the ground is inadequate and likely to become more so, we wish to do our best to lighten the labors of the association...