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...excellent article on this sport appeared in the Athletic Column of the Spirit of the Times of September 28, and it well repays reading, as does an article on "Time Handicapping...
JUST at present rowing in this College seems to be at a very low ebb, and it is greatly to be feared that unless immediate steps are taken to revive the interest in the sport it will die an easy death. It has been too often shown that the average undergraduate mind thirsts for novelty, and is attracted for the time by anything new, just as younger children are fascinated by some new toy. Class races and club races having now palled upon his appetite, might not an entire change of diet tempt his palate? And with this...
Constitution. - We hope that the first step of the Executive Committee of the H. A. A. will be to provide a Constitution, By-Laws, etc., and a set of rules for every sport which they patronize. All these, when drawn up, submitted, and approved, should be printed in cheap form, and sold to the members at cost price. That an institution of such importance should have been suffered to exist so long without such essential articles is only another instance of the proverbial Harvard indifference...
...Editor of the "Sporting Column" of this paper offers a prize racket to the best individual player at Lawn Tennis in the College proper, i. e. in the four classes of the academic course. A tournament will be held on the first four days of next week, from 3 to 6 P. M., provided ten men enter. The entrance-fee will be fifty cents, which will go toward partly paying for the prize. An entry-book will be opened at Bartlett's, which will close at 12 M., Monday. The contestants will be drawn in pairs, and the winners...
...whole, more nearly "fit" than they have ever been before. The time made in the Hundred-Yard Dash and Quarter-Mile Run was most excellent, - remarkable when we consider that it was made on a track of loose dirt, instead of a cinder path. The Bicycle Race produced capital sport, every inch of the three miles being closely contested. It was, we believe, the first race ridden by amateurs in the country. Next fall, with a proper cinder track on Holmes or Jarvis, we hope to see larger fields of starters and equally fast and close races. The time made...