Word: weather
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Harvard Training Quarters, Red Top, Conn., June 21, 1909.--As the weather was excessively hot today the crews all had very light work in the morning. The University crew paddled down-stream to the Navy Yard, and back in easy stretches at a slow stroke. The University four followed the eight down-stream and back, and the second four took a light row up-stream towards the Yale quarters. The Freshman four rowed down-stream a little beyond Cows Point and back, and the eight covered the same distance. Later in the afternoon it was much cooler; the crews went...
...University baseball team will play its second game with Cornell on Soldiers Field this afternoon at 3 o'clock. This will be the first played since the nine met Williams a week ago Thursday, for the weather prevented both the Dartmouth game and the second game with Holy Cross. At Ithaca, on May 29, the University team defeated Cornell team could not hit Hicks, while the University team secured ten safe hits off Howes and Caldwell, the Cornell pitchers. Cornell has played two games on Soldiers Field in the last two years and each time the University team...
...Class Day Committee has announced the following program for the exercises to be held on June 25 if the weather is fair, if not, a rainy day program will be substituted...
Both teams showed the effects of the weather, which was not conducive to spirited play. The base running was slow and unintelligent on several occasions and an unusually large number of men were left on bases. The fielding was more satisfactory. Simons and Crocker not only led the team at the bat, but covered, the ground around second base faultlessly. Simons made three put-outs on throws from Currier to catch men stealing second. Regnier at second and Raymond the catcher excelled for Brown...
...himself and five others in the preliminaries Friday. In several other events, records were closely approached. The half-mile was won by Beck of Pennsylvania in 1 minute, 56 3-5 seconds, 3-5 of a second behind the record held by Parsons of Yale. With better weather conditions a full second would probably have been cut off of the time in this event. Howe of Yale ran the 120-yard hurdles in 15 2-5 seconds, 1-5 of a second behind the time made by Shaw of Dartmouth last year. Talbott of Cornell was unable to reach...