Word: wetting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...enthusiastic at this, considering that they were now pretty well soaked by a hard rain. Sherrill is said to have broken a tendon in his leg in his attemps to come in first. The time of this race was only 10 3-5 sec., as the track was very wet. Lasell won third place. The two preliminary heats in the 2 mile bicycle race were each ridden by two Harvard men against one Yale man. In the first, Davis and O. B. Hawes of Harvard, and W. B. Wade of Yale, did very slow work as nobody wanted...
...with Endicott second and Brackett third. Bardeen managed to leae last place to Yale without any trouble. The 440 yards dash was a remarkably good race. Wright of Harvard showed beautiful form, taking first place in 52 sec., which was very fair time with so wet a footing. As the other men neared the last turn, Mullins of Harvard began pulling up steadily on the other men, and he finally passed all but Wright and finished a good second, Jones of Yale being thereby relegated to third place...
...Dickinson, 1b.; Frothingham '93, 2b.; Brown '92, 3b.; Soule, s. s.; Mackie, Hallowell and Bates in the field. Second nine-Guerin, c.; Spalding and Veazie, p.; Trafford and Howe, 1b.; Wood, 2b.; Cook, 3b.; Chase, s. s.; Frothingham '94, Corbett and Neff in the field. The field was wet and slippery, so the play was about as bad as it could be. But it is out door work that the men need, and Captain Dean is very fortunate to get his men out so early this year...
...varsity nine played a short practice game on Jarvis yesterday afternoon, and no one but the batteries did any indoor work. The ground was a little soft and the men found it difficult to manage the wet ball with cold hands, but in spite of these drawbacks the practice was much more satisfactory than work in the cage...
...watched the foot ball practice. The university eleven showed considerable improvement in team play, though at times the interference was not good. Upton, who has not played for a few days, was out again and did very well. Newell also did good work. The ground was so frightfully wet and slippery, however, that good playing was almost impossible. For the second eleven, Lee and Harding played a remarkably good game...