Word: nines
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...celebration in honor of last year's victorious crews and nine will be held on Friday evening. A procession, headed by the crews, the team and the band will form in the Yard at 7.30. After marching around the Yard, and to President Eliot's and Professor Hollis's, it will go to Soldiers Field, where there will be a bonfire. Those who desire torchlights can obtain them, filled with oil, for twenty-five cents at Brine's. To pay for oil barrels and a barge for the teams and incidentals, it is necessary to raise fifty dollars. Subscription books...
...idea of holding fall practice is not to pick a nine or develop team work, but to enable the captain and coaches to decide the various positions in which men should be tried, so that the cage work of the early spring may not be blind. The playing squads which have to be handled in the cage are too large to enable such a test to be made, and furthermore, a reliable test cannot be made indoors...
Whitman Mitchell Chandler '98, son of Mr. and Mrs. Horace P. Chandler, died Wednesday, aged twenty-three years, While at College Chandler was very prominent in athletics, playing on his Freshman nine, and on the University baseball team for three years. He was a member of the Institute of 1770, and of the Hasty Pudding Club. The funeral will be on Saturday, Sept. 30, at eleven o'clock, from his late residence, Forest Hills street, corner of Glen road, Jamaica Plain...
...nine won the series from Yale by victories at New Haven on June 27, and on the Polo Grounds in New York on July 1. Captain Haughton won the prize bat for the highest batting average and E. H. Sears '99 won the bat for sacrifice hits. W. T. Reid, Jr., '01, was elected captain...
Walter Scott Fitz '99, of Newton Centre, substitute pitcher, prepared at Newton High School. In his Freshman year he played on his class nine, and last year was substitute pitcher on the 'Varsity. Age 20, height 5 ft. 9 in., weight...