Word: set-back
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...Crimson and the Blue have had but two opponents in common so far this year--McGill and Princeton. Yale blanked the Canadians by one point, and two nights later the latter defeated Harvard 2-0. Those who sought alibis for this set-back found them in the fact that it was the last game on the Northerner's American trip, and that the visitors admitted that they would rather beat the Crimson than any of their other opponents...
Princeton, N. J., June 7.--The Princeton ball team received its second set-back of the year this afternoon in an 11 to 4 defeat at the hands of Boston College. The visitors won the game in the sixth inning when they scored eight runs on seven hits and two errors...
...final match in preparation for the Yale contest on May 23, the Crimson golf team tested skill with Technology. The Engineers had been successful in all their matches to date and they received their first set-back on the Belmont course, capturing but two of the six matches, losing by the score of 4 to 2. Again Hodder played number one on the University team, with Williams two, Mapes three, and Peirson four. The low scorer of the match, however, was Mapes, who led the field with a 77. Peirson was next with a card of 79 while the best...
...most serious set-back to Crimson supporters Saturday was the failure of Captain Burke to place in either the half or the mile runs. In obviously poor condition for the races, the University team's leader was in the ruck in both events. In the two-mile distance also, the points which the Crimson team had counted upon from Lund and Lutz were not forthcoming...
...Gathering a large number of hits and taking advantage of the frequent passes given by Hickey, who pitched for Yale, the New Haven baseball team, Eastern League champions, today defeated the Blue players in a listless game by the score of 12 to 3. This game atones for the set-back which the Yale men gave the same team April 14, when the Blue team came from behind...