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...students is to correct many of the abuses which the overseers wish to put an end to. Only last year, they voted voluntarily to confine the baseball games to Yale and Princeton, so that the number of games played should be decreased. The tendency toward class and scrub boat races shows conclusively how little ground there is for the assertion that the University crew is the only one to which encouragement is given, and a glance at the football field in the fall, the gymnasium in winter, the baseball field in the spring, and the running track, the cricket crease...
...elsewhere" and that those who have only good health in view are "Crowded out and become discouraged." We venture to say that anyone who could make such an assertion as that can never have visited the Hemenway gymnasium on a winter afternoon, or have seen one of the many "scrub matches in baseball and football, which take place every year...
...thrower and hard hitter. He will undoubtedly be change catcher this year. Wilson, '89 S., played on his class nine last fall, he and Day being the battery. He is pretty light for a pitcher, but he has a good head and sharp curves. McClintock, '91, played in several scrub games last fall and also when Yale defeated the New York giants. He is an all-round player and will make the University nine before he graduates if not this year...
Polo on roller skates is a favorite winter game at Yale, and although now there is no regular college team, as there was in 1884, scrub games are of frequent occurrence...
...University foot-ball team, which was picked on Saturday last, played its first practice game yesterday with a scrub team and was beaten 6 to 2.- Cornell...