Word: ties
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
When Harvard arranged two games in baseball with Yale, it will be remembered that the two universities could not agree on a date upon which to play the tie game if necessary. It was decided, however, to leave the question open until May 1. During that time there has been considerable correspondence. This the CRIMSON publishes to day as self-explanatory of Harvard's attitude...
...outcome of the Yale - Harvard baseball games last year - one victory for each college, and the tie not played off - was so unsatisfactory to all interested in true sport that we desire to prevent if possible a similar experience this year. As our present arrangement provides for a game in Cambridge on June 22d, and a game in New Haven on June 27th, we hereby invite you in case these games result in a tie, to play a third game on any day after June 27th, (our Commencement Day). and before July 5th. We are willing to play the game...
...first place there was nothing novel in that proposal. The Yale and, Harvard nines have repeatedly played off a tie after Commencement Day. Indeed until Yale declined last year to follow the uniform precedents of twenty years, no question was ever raised as to the propriety of an arrangement like that proposed by us. Nor do we see how it could be more difficult for your nine to play ball as late as the Thursday or the Saturday of Commencement week than it is for your crew to row on Friday of that week...
...whatever difficulty there may be, falls equally on both nines and is indeed, of your own making. If you had seen fit to play the New Haven game in May or earlier in June instead of the last week in that month as we suggested at our conference, the tie game might easily have been played before vacation. We should not and do not take any exception to the date you have chosen for the New Haven game. But, on the other hand, since it is your selection of so late a date as Tuesday, June 27th, that throws...
...have proposed as an alternate plan that we play three games, whether the first two result in a tie or not, and that the first of these games be played on neutral ground, the second at Cambridge, and the third at New Haven. Such a plan is, we believe, unprecedented in the annals of sport. The objections to it are obvious. If either university wins the first two games, there is no occasion for a third game unless we are to play ball for gate receipts only. If on the other hand the first two game result in a tie...