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...freshman game the same year, that we hoped she had mended her manners; and last year justified our hopes in a certain degree. It is this intense feeling over the result of every game that accounts for the desperation of Yale's play, and the dogged pluck she exhibits in athletics; but gentlemanly enthusiasm is almost as effective, and far more graceful for college men, than the bear-garden behavior in vogue at cocking mains and prize fights. It is one of the most creditable things in '89's record that she bore all this abuse patiently, without attempting...
...foul which Allen caught yesterday afternoon was one of the prettiest occurrences in the game. The reporters were not a little surprised to find their table upset and their score books deluged in a flood of ice water. The pluck with which Allen ran into the formidable "board" elicited unbounded applause...
...Eastman. Williams was quickly shut out in the ninth inning, and the game was won. The features of the game were the fine work of the Harvard battery, both in the field and at the bat, the catching of Eastman who held Tuck's wild throws with great pluck. Edgerly's play at second is also worthy of special notice. The following is the score...
...announcement that the spring tennis tournament will be held next week, ought to bring out as many players as possible. Every man who can play at all should pluck up courage and sign the book which has been placed at Bartlett's, before Saturday evening. Let no one hold back through modesty or through fear of being beaten. The managers of the association have taken great pains to make this tournament a successful one in every respect; and all tennis players should feel called upon to assist them by entering, even if they do not feel confident of carrying...
...final bout between Whitelaw, '87, and A. C. Coolidge, '87, was marked for the pluck with which the former received many hard blows and the rapidity with which the latter delivered them. Whitelaw withdrew after the second round and the bout was awarded to Coolidge...