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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.- "Is the Bicycle Club dead?" is a question frequently heard now among members of the club, and it seems to me there is reason for the question. The roads have been in splendid condition for the greater part of the last month, yet not a single run has been taken. The management seems entirely to forget the purpose of a bicycle club. On two occasions, it must be allowed, attempts were made to have a run, but on the first day it was too hot for a sane man to ride, and on the other it rained...
After its splendid victory at New Haven, the nine returned to Springfield Saturday night, and there spent Sunday. Monday morning it went to Amherst and played a game which advances Harvard one step nearer towards the pennant...
THREE MILE WALK.Entries. Bemis, '87, (scratch), E. C. Wright, '86, (1 1-2 minutes handicap). Bemis gave a splendid exhibition, breaking the American college record in the three mile walk by 1m. 11s. The time made by Mr. Bemis was 24m. 14 2 5s. The first mile was completed in 7m. 49 1-2s., the second in 16m. 1s., the third in 24-14 2-5s. Wright came in about 25 yards ahead...
...knows what is expected of him, and the players are not apt to get "rattled" at critical moments. The batting Saturday was not heavy, but when we consider the little practice that the nine has had against effective pitchers it is far from discouraging. The freshmen played a splendid game on Holmes with their Amherst compeers, and have good reason to congratulate themselves, but it speaks poorly for the class that they give such slight encouragement to their nine. At the game Saturday, barely forty freshmen were present, and though the time set for the game was unfortunate, at least...
...much time and energy is spent upon our military duties, that all athletic sports are practically abandoned. We have no base-ball, no foot-ball, no boating, although the material for either of the last two is splendid, and some day we may have in the field, an eleven with a five pound heavier average than Yale...