Word: tracked
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Secondly, hire some professional base ball trainer for the nine, or at least allow the nine to play with professionals. We have a profess ional trainer for track athletics-the only sport in which Harvard has been almost uniformly successful-why not have one for base-ball? The secrecy which has surrounded the actions of our base-ball teams of late has insidiously brought about many abuses which only openness and frankness in the matter can eradicate...
...spite of that, only six hounds entered. As Davenport and Downs were unable to run, Gorham, '90, and Dodge, '91, acted as hares, starting at precisely 4.11 from Matthews. Their course extended through back yards and cross streets to Fresh Pond, thence up the railroad track to Mount Auburn cemetery, from there to the Brighton abattoir, over Brighton street to Barry' corner, where the bags were dropped. The course covered about six miles and the trail was good all the way. The hares arrived at the gymnasium at just one-quarter of a minute after five o'clock, thus making...
...fine, but the track was in poor condition. In the first event of the day, the mile handicap, there were twenty starters; on the third lap eight of these fell in a heap, but for tunately no one was badly hurt...
...fall sports, which were postponed last Saturday on account of rain and the bad condition of the track, will take place today, should the weather be fair. All the events are sure to be well contested, and one or two records may be broken. But in order to insure the success of the athletic meeting, one regulation must be enforced, and that is to see that the spectators do not crowd on the track, in their eagerness to get the best view of the races, and prove an annoyance to the contestants. In years past, complaint has always been made...
...hares were H. A. Davis, '91 and J. D. Gorham, '90. They left Matthews at 3.28. starting towards the north-west part of the observatory; thence to Belmont direct, turning here to the south through the Watertown Arsenal and across the Charles, then along the B. and A. track to Brighton and home via Allston, the bags being left at Barry's corner. The course was about ten miles long. Twenty hounds started, led by T. T. Seelye, L. S., but the number dwindled to ten at the break. The first hound in was Priest, '91, followed closely by Seelye...