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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- There are few sports more worty of encouragement or which receive less support from the members of the University than cricket. It is a shame that this game which has been acknowledged for centuries to be a gentleman's sport should be so wantonly overlooked here. Few men probably realize what the cricket eleven has done, or what it might do, if it received its share of support from the students. Beginning yearly with a few good cricketers the eleven is filled up with raw men who practice faithfully by themselves unnoticed and disregarded...
...following article is taken from the Princetonian of Monday, and as it is sure to be of interest to all who take a pride in the sport, we take the liberty of inserting it here...
Convinced by a personal and critic observation of the game the author in justice upholds and defends the sport with the remark that 'with good physical condition in the players, the requisite training and suitable grounds, the game is not only one of the best of out door sports, but one of the safest.' As regards the tendency to degenerate into personal combat, 'the writer's observation has led him to believe that, in nine cases out of ten, a general tendency to indulge in striking with the fist is the result of conscious inferiority.' Any one who has watched...
...those who do not play foot-ball during the fall, and who yet enjoy a bracing afternoon's sport, no better opportunity is afforded than the runs across country undertaken by the Hare and Hounds Club. Everyone feels the need of some sort of recreation after the studies of the morning and early afternoon, and it was in order to meet this demand that the club was first started. The cold, invigorating weather of the next two months and the character of the country round about Cambridge, made the sport a very popular one from the outset, so much...
...would be all right for them to put forth what are, to say the least, misleading reports concerning their condition and chances of winning. If college races are to become hippodrome contests, then those engaged in them and their friends, are no doubt, under the questionable laws of sport, entitled to make out of them, financially, all that they can, and there is no reason why the tricks of the trade should then be ignored by college men any more than by other conscienceless sportsmen. But it is, and has been, assumed that these contests have been between gentlemen; that...