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...third set Bidwell played a much steadier game, while Davis became careless. With the games six all, both players settled down to work and some very pretty tennis resulted, with several brilliant rallies...
...last year, where he played a very close match with W. T. Gray in the finals. Cutting is sure to do well. Last summer he won the open tournament at Newport, defeating a number of veteran golfers. Burden also did good work in the Newport tournament, and has grown steadier in his playing this spring. On the whole the team is a stronger one than last year...
This is the first race of representative Harvard fours, and this kind of rowing has been taken up as a change from the steadier work of the eights, and to give the men experience in watermanship, in riding and controlling their boats with some degree of ease. That this result has been obtained at least in part, is to be seen in the improved work of some...
Harvard won the second game with Dartmouth by the score of 7 to 6 on Holmes Field, yesterday afternoon. The game was loosely played on both sides, and both pitchers were hit rather freely, though Paine was somewhat the steadier. Harvard has hardly played worse this season. Besides the six errors there was much ill-judged playing, particularly in base-running, two opportunities to score being lost by rishking too much...
...second Yale speaker, Charles Upson Clark, began by denying that the negative were urging higher prices; they merely wished steadier prices. The question was not of the relative merits of bimetallism and gold monometallism, but was solely as to whether the United States should at once and definitively adopt the single gold standard. This action, he maintained, would not restore but would destroy confidence, because it would be a surprise and would maintain the ills at present existing. The policy of the country for twenty years has been steadily tending toward international bimetallism. To change this policy would cause...