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...attempt at ridicule, and we doubt if any one of that galaxy of fifteen stellar athletes who clamor at our gates would be so supersensitive as to let a lone cartoon of his race influence his choice of college. If such there be, he is unworthy of the sod which has furnished a greater part of the world's wit and humor. We say this advisedly because by a strange coincidence the man who drew the picture and the president of the board are lineal descendants of St. Patrick themselves, and believe that the opinion voiced in yesterday's communication...
...diamond has again been improved. Once more sod has been removed and loam packed firmly in its place, until there is a broad path some fifteen or twenty feet wide running from first base all the way around to third base. There is hardly any possibility of bad bounds on balls to the infield...
...Cricket Club is now practising every afternoon on the upper end of Holmes Field, and, as the Tennis Association has given up the courts there, the Cricket Club will use that ground the rest of the season. It was originally intended to sod a crease on Norton's Field, but the plan was abandoned as impracticable...
...afternoon's trial was enough to convince the cricketers that Norton's field is utterly unfit for their purposes. As it is impossible to sod it, the candidates will practice on the upper ends of Holmes and Jarvis, as they did last year...
Capt. Rhodes of the Yale eleven and Capt. Poe of the Princeton, have been in New York together, looking over the grounds at Brotherhood Park. The manager of the grounds has promised to sod them well, and it is probable that the Yale-Princeton game will be played there...