Word: springs
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...class, but very few men, on entering College, realize the amount of work necessary to fit them to represent their own class during the summer, or even to take a good position in the Club crews. Too many wait till late in the winter or till the spring to begin work in earnest, and then, as it has been often proved, it is too late to obtain sufficient endurance for the ordeal of a long race...
...President; W. C. Riggs, '76, Captain; W. S. Otis, '78, Secretary and Treasurer. All persons who wish to join the club must send their names to the Secretary, No. 25 Holyoke Street, before the fall boating-season closes, in order that sufficient boats may be ready in the spring. Those who join this club, or any of the clubs now, will have the use of the boats for the next month, but those who put off joining until the spring will find that no places have been reserved for them, and they will be troubled by the lack of sufficient...
...Spring races at Yale took place on Wednesday afternoon. The single-scull race was won by Kennedy of the University crew in 15 minutes 21 1/4 seconds. Kennedy will pull in the single-scull race at Saratoga. The six-oared race was won by a crew from the Law School in 13.09, the Freshmen coming in second in 13.16, and the Junior class crew, with Cook and two other members of the University crew, 6 seconds later. The seat of the bow oar in the last crew came off its runners at the start, delaying the crew. Distance in both...
...hoped that next spring the first-crew race will be opened to shells with no allowance to laps, and that the clubs will each own and enter a shell...
...time made at the Cornell Spring Races was two miles in twelve minutes and fifteen seconds, by a six rowing in a shell. The Hobart College Nine beat the Cornell Nine twenty-five to twenty-three in seven innings. The score was kept only of outs and runs. On the whole, we should infer that the Cornell students have yet something to learn in base-ball, if in nothing else...