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Toronto Gives Crimson Set-Back...
...next two games were won rather easily, M. I. T. being overwhelmed 10-0 and Milwaukee defeated 2-1, 0-1 a contest marked by the superiority of the Crimson's team work over the Westerners' individual tactics and speed. The following week a set-back was received at the hands of the B. A. A. sextet which won a very close 2-1 victory, but after that the Crimson chalked up three successive victories. The St. Nicholas Club was beaten 5-1 by excellent team-work and accurate passing; Queens College lost 2-1 in a battle featured...
Saturday night at West Point the Army swordsmen defeated the Harvard fencing team by the score of 6 to 5. This is the second defeat for the University men since the Yale match in 1921, their only other set-back coming last year in the intercollegiate meet at Annapolis, where they were forced by the Navy team to take the second place...
...contest by the absence of Larocque, whose illness will prevent him from playing for the rest of the season, and of Guild, his substitute at center, who is suffering from a severe cold. The loss of two letter-men, both from one position, is of course, a severe set-back to the University team, but the Crimson coaches are relying on the system of play and the individual strength of the substitutes to fill adequately the gap in the forward line, which must have its maximum strength to overcome the speed of the Middle-Westerners tonight...
Tufts' only defeats have been at the hands of West Point, Georgetown, Holy Cross, and Howdoin. The first of these, an 8 to 3 set-back, was the result of a hitting rally which Weefer was unable to check. Georgetown and Holy Cross were losses by the score of 11-3 and 8-2, but Tufts more than made up for the latter defeat in Wednesday's game. Bowdoin managed to nose out the Brown and Blue 12-9--but the Medford team evidently had a bad day. HARVARD TUFTS Lincoln, 3b. 2b., Loud Gordon, r.f. c.f., Roche Jenkins...